30 Bible Verses On Eating Meat

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.’”

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

“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.”

“And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.”

“It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.”

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

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”

“When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, ‘I would like some meat,’ then you may eat as much of it as you want.”

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

“Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.”

“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.’”

“You may eat any clean bird.”

“These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground.”

“So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘An idol is nothing at all in the world’ and that ‘There is no God but one.’”

“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.”

“I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.”

“Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be regarded as unclean by you.”

“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.”

“There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.”

“’Surely not, Lord!’ Peter replied. ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’”

“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.”

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

“Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.”

“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.”

“And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.”

“Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.”