Bible Verses about “eating animal blood”

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”

“¶ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:”

“¶ 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.”

“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”

“‹Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?›”

“Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.”

“For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.”

“And he saith unto them, ‹Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,› [it] ‹cannot defile him;›”

“Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].”

“¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”

“But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”

“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?”

“That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”

“Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.”

“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.”

“For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.”

“For [it is] the life of all flesh; the blood of it [is] for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh [is] the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.”

“[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”

“¶ I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.”

“But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.”

“If any of them that believe not bid you [to a feast], and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.”

“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.”

“¶ And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.”

“Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake:”

“For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.”

“And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”

“Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:”

“Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.”

“¶ Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;”

“And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”

“And did all eat the same spiritual meat;”

“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”

“But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:”

“Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.”

“Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience?”

“For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?”

“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?”

“Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.”

“Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?”

“What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?”

“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

“Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”

“Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.”

“But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.”

“¶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”

“Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

“Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.”