Bible Verses about “eating in church”
The Bible contains 33 verses about eating in church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”
“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”
“It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.”
“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”
“Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.”
“I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”
“Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.”
“Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.”
“But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
“For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"”
“For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.”
“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
“So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.”
“One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.”
“He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.”
“Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.”
“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”
“For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”
“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.”
“Then don't let your good be slandered,”
“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.”
“Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.”
“For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”
“What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.”
“But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.”
“When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.”
“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.”
“For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.”
“This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."”
“As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.”
“He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.”