Food

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,

Every creature that lives and moves will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.

However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales — it is unclean for you.

Then he said to them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, because the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

For he has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.

A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb: sweet to the taste and health to the body.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy the good life.

It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.

Here is what I have seen to be good: It is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.

Furthermore, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, he has also allowed him to enjoy them, take his reward, and rejoice in his labor. This is a gift of God,

Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.

I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.

The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple  — all the trees of the orchard — have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.

Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the LORD of Armies. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

Now John had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Everyone ate and was filled. They picked up twelve baskets of leftover pieces.

Then he said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal of approval on him.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

Now the one who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will also provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

I know both how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content — whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is Christ.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out.

If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation,

See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.