Bible Verses About Eating and Drinking to God's Glory

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

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."

"For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."

"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."

"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."

"But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank."

"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"

"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart."

"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works."

What does the Bible say about eating and drinking to god's glory?

Even something as ordinary as eating and drinking can become an act of worship. God cares about how we steward our bodies, and Scripture calls us to honor Him in every area of life — including what and how we eat. Key King James Version passages include 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Romans 14:17. This page collects 10 KJV verses about eating and drinking to god's glory, each quoted in full.

Does the Bible have rules about eating?

While New Testament believers are not under Old Testament dietary laws (Mark 7:19, Acts 10), Scripture still calls us to self-control, gratitude, and honoring God with our bodies (1 Corinthians 10:31).

Is gluttony a sin?

Yes. Proverbs 23:20-21 warns against gluttony, and Philippians 3:19 speaks of those whose 'god is their belly.' Eating without self-control dishonors the body God has given us.