What Does the Bible Say About Food Medecine?

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Luke 10:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Romans 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Jeremiah 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

3 John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Acts 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Acts 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

John 19:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Matthew 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.”

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

Jeremiah 30:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Isaiah 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

Proverbs 27:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Psalm 145:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.

Psalm 111:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

Psalm 106:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Psalm 45:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”

2 Samuel 17:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Genesis 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

59 Bible Verses about Food Medecine

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Acts 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 30:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 145:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 111:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 106:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 45:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 17:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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