For he satisfies the longing soul.
He fills the hungry soul with good.
Psalm 107:9
reliability
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
John 6:35
faith | life | bread
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
life | worship
These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales. You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10
Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Romans 14:3
judgment
God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
Genesis 1:29
life | fruitfulness
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11:25
generosity | giving | selfishness
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
Genesis 9:3-4
blood
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”
Matthew 4:4
Word of God | listening | bread
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:7-8
materialism | contentment | world
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25
life | worrying | beauty
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 9:16-17
miracles | prayer | bread
Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2:16-17
sabbath | judgment | Jesus
Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
joy | life | heart
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8:10
giving | joy
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20
obedience | listening | promises
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.
John 6:27
eternal life | Jesus
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24
gentleness | speaking | soul
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46-47
worship | community | praise
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10
righteousness | giving | generosity
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Daniel 10:3
fasting | wine
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6
righteousness | blessing | receiving
As newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow.
1 Peter 2:2
salvation | Word of God | rebirth
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:3
suffering | Word of God | life
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
righteousness | kingdom
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
joy | life | receiving
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.”
Malachi 3:10
blessing | giving | harvest
Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8
materialism | money | reliability
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:23
law | goodness | righteousness
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
work | life | receiving
Don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luke 12:22b-23
worrying | life | contentment
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
Philippians 4:12
contentment | life | money
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!”
John 7:37
Jesus | equipment
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19
money | work | receiving
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
Mark 7:18-19
body | heart
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
Luke 3:11
materialism | giving | poverty
Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
Luke 12:24
life | worrying | valuable
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4
clothing
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.
John 6:57
Father | Jesus | life
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered—
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
even all of the trees of the field are withered;
for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Joel 1:12
joy | sadness | harvest
According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
Therefore they have forgotten me.
Hosea 13:6
materialism | pride | dependence
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:4
idols