'Eat' in the Bible
But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.
But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted.
It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.
Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.
What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."
Look at the Israelites--the nation and their ritual. Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers in the altar?
Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;
If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience' sake.
Why, have you no homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you wish to show your contempt for the Church of God and make those who have no homes feel ashamed? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I certainly do not praise you.
For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.
But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.
If any one is hungry, let him eat at home; so that your coming together may not lead to judgement. The other matters I will deal with whenever I come.
If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.
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- Bite (18 instances)
- Bolt (7 instances)
- Chew (6 instances)
- Consume (170 instances)
- Corrode (1 instance)
- Deplete (1 instance)
- Despatch (1 instance)
- Devour (148 instances)
- Discuss (17 instances)
- Dispatch (5 instances)
- Eat (765 instances)
- Exhaust (12 instances)
- Fare (7 instances)
- Feed (140 instances)
- Gnaw (6 instances)
- Gulp (4 instances)
- Lick (9 instances)
- Rust (6 instances)
- Tolerate (15 instances)
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