Bible Verses about “diet and nutrition”
The Bible contains 50 verses about diet and nutrition across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
“¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
“¶ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations.”
“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
“[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”
“And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you.”
“For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.”
“Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.”
“I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.”
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.”
“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.”
“But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
“Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.”
“For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.”
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
“¶ All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be] an abomination unto you.”
“And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you:”
“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.”
“One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”
“He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.”
“But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.”
“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.”
“Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.”
“For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.”
“Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.”
“¶ These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.”
“Let not then your good be evil spoken of:”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.”
“They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.”
“[Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.”
“For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.”
“Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;”
“But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.”
“For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.”
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
“And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,”
“And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.”
“And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.”
“And whosoever beareth [ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.”
“[The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.”
“And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they [are] unclean unto you.”
“These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,”
“And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.”
“Every raven after his kind;”
“And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,”