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30 Bible Verse Eat Meat

  1. Genesis 9:3 (NIV)

    “Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.”

  2. Deuteronomy 12:15 (NIV)

    “Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.”

  3. 1 Corinthians 8:8 (NIV)

    “But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.”

  4. Acts 10:13 (NIV)

    “Then a voice told him, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’”

  5. Romans 14:2 (NIV)

    “One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.”

  6. 1 Timothy 4:4-5 (NIV)

    “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.”

  7. Leviticus 11:2-3 (NIV)

    “Say to the Israelites: ‘Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.”

  8. Luke 24:41-43 (NIV)

    “And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, ‘Do you have anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.”

  9. Matthew 15:11 (NIV)

    “What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

  10. Acts 15:29 (NIV)

    “You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.”

  11. 1 Corinthians 10:25 (NIV)

    “Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.”

  12. Genesis 18:8 (NIV)

    “He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.”

  13. 1 Corinthians 10:27 (NIV)

    “If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.”

  14. Leviticus 11:46-47 (NIV)

    “These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground. You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.”

  15. Acts 15:20 (NIV)

    “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.”

  16. 1 Corinthians 10:28 (NIV)

    “But if someone says to you, ‘This has been offered in sacrifice,’ then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.”

  17. Leviticus 7:23 (NIV)

    “Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.”

  18. Luke 24:30 (NIV)

    “When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.”

  19. Acts 15:28 (NIV)

    “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.”

  20. Genesis 25:28 (NIV)

    “Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.”

  21. Luke 15:23 (NIV)

    “Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.”

  22. Matthew 9:10 (NIV)

    “While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.”

  23. Acts 10:10-16 (NIV)

    “He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’”

  24. Romans 14:3 (NIV)

    “The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.”

  25. Matthew 14:19 (NIV)

    “And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.”

  26. Leviticus 11:9 (NIV)

    “Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales.”

  27. Deuteronomy 14:6 (NIV)

    “You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.”

  28. Acts 11:7-9 (NIV)

    “I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’ I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’”

  29. Matthew 3:4 (NIV)

    “John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.”

  30. Matthew 11:18-19 (NIV)

    “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”