Quotes about Food
After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.
- Acts 27:21
They were all encouraged and took some food themselves.
- Acts 27:36
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- Romans 14:20
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:13
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 1 Corinthians 8:1
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 8:7
But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 8:10
Have we no right to food and to drink?
- 1 Corinthians 9:4
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
- 1 Corinthians 9:13
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Corinthians 10:19