Bible Verses about โpraying over foodโ
The Bible contains 25 verses about praying over food across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โNow accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.โ
โIt is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.โ
โOne man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.โ
โDon'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.โ
โWho 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.โ
โBut the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,โ
โFor every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.โ
โThat which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."โ
โFor it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.โ
โforbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.โ
โthrough the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;โ
โyet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.โ
โAs they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."โ
โYou shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.โ
โBut food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.โ
โFor though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"โ
โBut be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.โ
โHowever, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.โ
โHe commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.โ
โThey all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.โ
โThose who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.โ
โWhen he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.โ
โTherefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.โ
โYou shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.โ
