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What Does the Bible Say About Vegetables?

Here are 15 Bible verses about vegetables, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Genesis 1:29

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

    BSBThen 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.

  2. #2Daniel 1:12

    Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

    BSB“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

  3. #3Genesis 9:3

    Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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

  4. #4Romans 14:2

    For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

    BSBFor one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

  5. #5Daniel 1:16

    Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

    BSBSo the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

  6. #6Numbers 11:5

    We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

    BSBWe remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

  7. #7Proverbs 15:17

    Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

    BSBBetter a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

  8. #81 Corinthians 8:8

    But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

    BSBBut food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

  9. #91 Corinthians 10:31

    Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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

  10. #102 Kings 4:39

    And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

    BSBOne of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

  11. #111 Corinthians 10:25-26

    Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

    BSBEat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

  12. #12Ezekiel 4:9

    Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

    BSBBut take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

  13. #13Ezekiel 47:12

    And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

    BSBAlong both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

  14. #14Isaiah 61:11

    For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

    BSBFor as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

  15. #151 Timothy 4:3-4

    Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

    BSBThey 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. For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

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