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Bible Verses about Food
Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 02/19/2021
What does the Bible say about food? – Scripture frequently mentions food in various contexts. In eating our daily bread, God encourages his followers to nourish their bodies and souls with nutritional and spiritual food. Learn more about food’s relevance in scripture from our list of Bible verses below!
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Ecclesiastes 9:7
7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Exodus 16:12
12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’ ”
Genesis 1:29
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Genesis 9:3
3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Isaiah 1:19
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
John 4:34
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
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John 6:27
27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
John 6:35
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Matthew 4:4
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 5:6
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Matthew 6:25
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
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Proverbs 15:17
17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 25:27
27 It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.
Proverbs 27:7
7 One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
Psalm 104:15
15 wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
Psalm 136:25
25 He gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.
1 Corinthians 6:13
13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 8:8
8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
1 Corinthians 10:31
31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Timothy 4:4-5
4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Mark 7:14-23
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
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