Abstaining from Meat

8 passages

1. Acts 15:29

   You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

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2. 1 Timothy 4:3

   They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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3. Romans 14:21

   It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

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4. Genesis 9:3

   Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

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5. Genesis 1:29

   Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

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6. 1 Corinthians 10:31

   So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

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7. Colossians 2:16

   Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

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8. Romans 14:3

   The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

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