Bible verses about "vegetarianism" | NSB

¹ Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron: ² »Tell the Israelites: ‘Here are the kinds of land animals you may eat: ³ »‘You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud. ⁴ »‘You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. ⁵ »‘Never eat rock badgers. Rock badgers are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. ⁶ »‘You must never eat rabbits. Rabbits are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. ⁷ »‘Never eat pigs. Pigs have completely divided hoofs but do not chew their cud. They are also unclean. ⁸ »‘Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you. ⁹ »‘Here are the kinds of creatures that live in the water that you may eat. You may eat anything in the seas and streams that have fins and scales. ¹⁰ »‘On the other hand, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting. ¹¹ »‘They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive. ¹² »‘Every creature in the water without fins or scales is offensive to you. ¹³ »‘Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, ¹⁴ kites, all types of buzzards, ¹⁵ all types of crows, ¹⁶ ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, ¹⁷ little owls, cormorants, great owls, ¹⁸ swans, pelicans, ospreys, ¹⁹ storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats. ²⁰ »‘Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. ²¹ »‘However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground. ²² »‘You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper. ²³ »‘Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. ²⁴ »‘Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening. ²⁵ »‘When you carry any part of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening. ²⁶ »‘All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that do not chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean. ²⁷ »‘All four-legged animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening. ²⁸ »‘Those who carry the dead body of any of these animals must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you. ²⁹ »‘The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you: the weasels, mole rats, mice, and all types of lizards, ³⁰ geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons. ³¹ »‘Of all the swarming creatures that move on the ground, these are unclean for you. He who touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening. ³² »‘When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. It will then be clean again. ³³ »‘If any of these creatures falls into a piece of pottery, break the pottery because everything in it is unclean. ³⁴ »‘If water from that pottery touches any food, the food is unclean. Any liquid that you drink from that pottery is unclean. ³⁵ »‘Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you. ³⁶ »‘A spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean. ³⁷ »‘If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean. ³⁸ »‘If water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you. ³⁹ »‘When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening. ⁴⁰ »‘Those who eat any of its dead body must wash their clothes. They will be unclean until evening. Those who carry its dead body away will wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. ⁴¹ »‘Any creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting and must not be eaten. ⁴² »‘Do not eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting. ⁴³ »‘Do not become disgusting by eating anything that swarms on the ground. Do not allow yourselves to become unclean because of them. ⁴⁴ »‘The reason is because I am Jehovah your God. You must live holy lives. Consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Never become unclean by touching anything that swarms or crawls on the ground. ⁴⁵ »‘I am Jehovah! I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. Be holy because I am holy. ⁴⁶ »‘This is the law about animals, birds, and every living creature that swims in the water and every creature that swarms on the ground. ⁴⁷ »‘This law helps you distinguish between clean and unclean, the animals you may eat and those you may not eat.’«

¹⁷ Better is a bowel of soup where there is love, than a steak with someone you hate.

²⁵ »The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the bull, but dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on my entire holy mountain,« Jehovah proclaims.

¹⁴ But I replied: »No, O Lord Jehovah! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.«

¹¹ »That which comes out of the mouth makes a man unclean, not that which goes into the mouth.«

¹ Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking. ² For one believes that he may eat all things. Another who is weak eats only vegetables. ³ Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating. Let the one who does not eat judge him that eats, for God has received him.

⁶ He who regards the day regards it to God and he who does not regard the day does not regard it to God. He, who eats, eats to God, for he gives God thanks. He who does not eat does not eat to God and he gives God thanks.

¹ The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them, ² through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron. ³ They will forbid marrying, [and command] to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

⁴ »You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

⁶ The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them. ⁷ Also the cow and the bear will graze. Their young will lie down together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox. ⁸ The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra. The weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. ⁹ They will not hurt or destroy in my entire holy mountain. This is because the earth will be full of the knowledge of Jehovah just as the waters cover the sea.

¹² »Test your servants, please, for ten days. Give them vegetables to eat and water to drink. ¹³ »You compare our appearance and the appearance of the young people who eat the king’s special food. Then you deal with us according to what you see.« ¹⁴ So he listened to them and allowed them to prove the matter for ten days. ¹⁵ They looked better when the ten days ended! They were fairer in appearance and fatter in flesh than the young people who ate the king’s special food. ¹⁶ So the steward took away their special food and wine and gave them vegetables and water.

³ »Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹ Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking. ² For one believes that he may eat all things. Another who is weak eats only vegetables. ³ Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating. Let the one who does not eat judge him that eats, for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you to judge another man’s servant? He stands or falls before his own master. Yes, he will be made to stand for God can make him stand. ⁵ One person judges one day above another. Another person judges every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day regards it to God and he who does not regard the day does not regard it to God. He, who eats, eats to God, for he gives God thanks. He who does not eat does not eat to God and he gives God thanks. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself. ⁸ For if we live, we live to God and if we die, we die to God. Therefore should we live or die, we are God’s. ⁹ To this end Christ both died, and rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. ¹⁰ Why do you judge your brother? Why do you look down on your brother with contempt? We will all stand before the judgment seat of God (Theos). ¹¹ It is written: As I live, says Jehovah, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge (confess to) Jehovah. (Isaiah 45:23) ¹² So then every one of us will give account of himself to God. ¹³ Let us not judge one another any more. Let no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. ¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. If someone thinks something is unclean it is unclean to him. ¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you do not walk in love. Do not allow what you eat to destroy the one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Do not let the good you do be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he that serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of by men. ¹⁹ Let us follow after the things that make for peace, and things that are encouraging to one another. ²⁰ Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense. ²¹ It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened. ²² Do you have faith? Have it for yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in that thing that he allows. ²³ He that doubts is damned if he eats, because he eats not by faith. Whatever is not by faith is sin!

³⁰ »Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food.« It was so.

²⁹ Then God said: »I give you every plant that bears seed on the face of the entire earth. I also give you every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ »Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food.« It was so.

²¹ It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.