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Want to know what the Bible says about Eating Animals? Here are 136 Bible verses about Eating Animals from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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1 Timothy 4:3 NIV
They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
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Acts 10:14 NIV
“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
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Leviticus 22:8 NIV
He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the Lord.
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Leviticus 3:17 NIV
“‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood. ’”
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Matthew 6:26 NIV
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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Proverbs 27:23 NIV
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,
    give careful attention to your herds;
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Genesis 9:2-3 NIV
2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Isaiah 66:15-17 NIV
15 See, the Lord is coming with fire,
    and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his anger with fury,
    and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For with fire and with his sword
    the Lord will execute judgment on all people,
    and many will be those slain by the Lord.
17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
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Ezekiel 44:23 NIV
They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
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