Diet and nutrition

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• Genesis 1:29

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

• Genesis 9:3

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

• Daniel 1:12

  Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

• Romans 14:1–23

  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 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. …

• Daniel 1:15

  And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

• Leviticus 3:17

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

• Leviticus 7:23–24

  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

• John 6:35

  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

• Ezekiel 4:9

  Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

• 1 Corinthians 6:12

  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.

• Leviticus 11:4–44

  Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. …

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

• Leviticus 11:1–47

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. …

• 1 Peter 5:7

  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

• Genesis 2:16

  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

• 1 Timothy 4:1–4

  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. …

• Luke 24:42

  And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

• Exodus 15:26

  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

• 1 Corinthians 3:16

  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

• Matthew 4:4

  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

• Leviticus 11:2

  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

• 3 John 1:2

  Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

• Proverbs 23:20–21

  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

• 1 Timothy 4:4

  For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

• Ephesians 5:18

  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

• Galatians 6:7–8

  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

• Colossians 3:1–2

  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

• Genesis 18:8

  And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

• Isaiah 25:6

  And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

• Psalms 136:25

  Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

• Deuteronomy 14:1–29

  Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. …

• Proverbs 25:16

  Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

• 1 Corinthians 8:8

  But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

• Psalms 104:27

  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

• Acts 10:15

  And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• 1 Timothy 4:8

  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

• 1 Corinthians 6:20

  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.