Bible Verses about “diet”
The Bible contains 12 verses about diet across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.”
“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:”
“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
“‹Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?›”
“And he saith unto them, ‹Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,› [it] ‹cannot defile him;›”
“And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.”
“Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.”