Passage | New International Version |
Matthew 4:4 | Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" |
Matthew: 6:16-18 | "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. |
Mark 7:15-16 | Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' |
Mark 7:18-19 | "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus delclared all foods "clean.") |
Luke 7: 33-34 | John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and you say, 'He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard |
Luke 22:17 | For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." |
Acts 10:13-15 | "Get up Peter. Kill and eat." "Surely not, Lord! Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." |
Acts 10:28 | God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean. |
Romans 14: 2,5,6 | Ones man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. [...] Each should be fully convinced in his own mind. [...] He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. |
Romans 14:20 | Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. |
Romans 14:23 | But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. |
1 Cor 10:25-26 | Eat any thing sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." |
1 Timothy 5:23 | Stop drinking only a little water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and frequent illness. |
What is home without a Bible?
'Tis a home where daily bread
For the body is provided,
But the soul is never fed.
—C.D. Meigs