Genesis 9:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.”
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“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 9:3 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:29Then 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.
- Leviticus 11:1The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,
- Leviticus 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:15But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- Deuteronomy 14:3You must not eat any detestable thing.
- Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- Acts 10:12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
- Romans 14:3The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Corinthians 10:23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- 1 Corinthians 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
- Colossians 2:16Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
- Colossians 2:21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
- 1 Timothy 4:3They 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.
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