Bible verses about "food" | BBE

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth. ³ You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again. ⁴ But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you. ⁵ And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you. ⁶ And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you. ⁷ And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back. ⁸ Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you. ⁹ These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food. ¹⁰ All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you; ¹¹ They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you. ¹² Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you. ¹³ And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; ¹⁴ And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort; ¹⁵ Every raven, and birds of that sort; ¹⁶ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort; ¹⁷ And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl; ¹⁸ And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture; ¹⁹ The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. ²⁰ Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you; ²¹ But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food; ²² Such as all the different sorts of locust. ²³ But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you. ²⁴ By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening: ²⁵ Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening. ²⁶ Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean. ²⁷ Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening. ²⁸ Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. ²⁹ And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort; ³⁰ And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon.

¹⁷ Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

⁷ Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

¹⁴ And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you: ¹⁵ There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean. ¹⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ¹⁷ And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying. ¹⁸ And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean, ¹⁹ Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean. ²⁰ And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean. ²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, ²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: ²³ All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

⁸ But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: ⁵ For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.

³⁵ And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

¹ Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings. ² One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food. ³ Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval. ⁴ Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling. ⁵ This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind. ⁶ He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God. ⁷ For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself. ⁸ As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. ⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge. ¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. ¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting. ¹⁴ I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean. ¹⁵ And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death. ¹⁶ Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good: ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men. ¹⁹ So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another. ²⁰ Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another. ²¹ It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother. ²² The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval. ²³ But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

²⁹ And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

³¹ So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.