Written by Pastor Jack WellmanTop 22 Bible Verses About Nutrition
The subject of nutrition is not directly mentioned in the Bible meaning the Bible doesn’t talk about calories and the balance of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. However, from biblical principles we can conclude that it is beneficial and even morally right to emphasize a healthy diet. The Bible encourages us to care for our bodies, and good nutrition is naturally part of that.
Here are our top 22 Bible verses about nutrition!
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Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Daniel 9:3
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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- Leviticus 23:6
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For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.
- 1 Corinthians 11:21
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“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
- Matthew 6:16
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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
- 1 Corinthians 9:7
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Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
- Joel 1:14
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And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
- Mark 14:22
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Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
- Matthew 9:14
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“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
- Isaiah 58:6
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Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
- Isaiah 58:4
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So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
- Exodus 34:28
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But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
- Matthew 6:17-18
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And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
- Matthew 4:2
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And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
- Genesis 1:29
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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
- Genesis 9:3
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“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
- Joel 2:12
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And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
- Mark 9:29
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:17
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So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
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“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
- Esther 4:16
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Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
- John 6:35
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Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
- Ruth 3:3
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