Vegetarianism
10 passages
- Genesis 1:29–30
29Then 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. 30And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Read it in context - Romans 14:21
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
Read it in context - 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.
Read it in context - Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
Read it in context - Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Read it in context - Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Read it in context - Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
Read it in context - Matthew 15:11
A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
Read it in context - Romans 14:6
He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Read it in context - Romans 14:1–3
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions. 2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The 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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