Food

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.
Genesis 1:29 ESV

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.
Genesis 1:30 ESV

And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.
The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9 ESV

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,
she took of its fruit and ate,
and she also gave some to her husband who was with her,
and he ate.
Genesis 3:6 ESV

Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten,
and store it up.
It shall serve as food for you and for them.”
Genesis 6:21 ESV

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
And as I gave you the green plants,
I give you everything.
Genesis 9:3 ESV

Then food was set before him to eat.
But he said,
“I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”
He said,
“Speak on.”
Genesis 24:33 ESV

and prepare for me delicious food,
such as I love,
and bring it to me so that I may eat,
that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:4 ESV

‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food,
that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’ Genesis 27:7 ESV

Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats,
so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father,
such as he loves.
Genesis 27:9 ESV

So he went and took them and brought them to his mother,
and his mother prepared delicious food,
such as his father loved.
Genesis 27:14 ESV

And she put the delicious food and the bread,
which she had prepared,
into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis 27:17 ESV

He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father.
And he said to his father,
“Let my father arise and eat of his son's game,
that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:31 ESV

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge,
and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.
Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Genesis 39:6 ESV

and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh,
but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”
Genesis 40:17 ESV

And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities,
and let them keep it.
Genesis 41:35 ESV

That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt,
so that the land may not perish through the famine.”
Genesis 41:36 ESV

and he gathered up all the food of these seven years,
which occurred in the land of Egypt,
and put the food in the cities.
He put in every city the food from the fields around it.
Genesis 41:48 ESV

Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them,
but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them.
“Where do you come from?”
he said.
They said,
“From the land of Canaan,
to buy food."
Genesis 42:7 ESV

They said to him,
“No,
my lord,
your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42:10 ESV

And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt,
their father said to them,
“Go again,
buy us a little food."
Genesis 43:2 ESV

If you will send our brother with us,
we will go down and buy you food.
Genesis 43:4 ESV

and said,
“Oh,
my lord,
we came down the first time to buy food.
Genesis 43:20 ESV

and we have brought other money down with us to buy food.
We do not know who put our money in our sacks.”
Genesis 43:22 ESV

Then he washed his face and came out.
And controlling himself he said,
“Serve the food."
Genesis 43:31 ESV

Then he commanded the steward of his house,
“Fill the men's sacks with food,
as much as they can carry,
and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
Genesis 44:1 ESV

And when our father said,
‘Go again,
buy us a little food,’ Genesis 44:25 ESV

And Joseph provided his father,
his brothers,
and all his father's household with food,
according to the number of their dependents.
Genesis 47:12 ESV

Now there was no food in all the land,
for the famine was very severe,
so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
Genesis 47:13 ESV

And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan,
all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said,
“Give us food.
Why should we die before your eyes?
For our money is gone.”
Genesis 47:15 ESV

And Joseph answered,
“Give your livestock,
and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock,
if your money is gone.”
Genesis 47:16 ESV

So they brought their livestock to Joseph,
and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses,
the flocks,
the herds,
and the donkeys.
He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
Genesis 47:17 ESV

Why should we die before your eyes,
both we and our land?
Buy us and our land for food,
and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh.
And give us seed that we may live and not die,
and that the land may not be desolate.”
Genesis 47:19 ESV

And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh,
and four fifths shall be your own,
as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households,
and as food for your little ones.”
Genesis 47:24 ESV

“Asher's food shall be rich,
and he shall yield royal delicacies.
Genesis 49:20 ESV

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist,
and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4 ESV

“Therefore I tell you,
do not be anxious about your life,
what you will eat or what you will drink,
nor about your body,
what you will put on.
Is not life more than food,
and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25 ESV

no bag for your journey,
or two tunics or sandals or a staff,
for the laborer deserves his food.
Matthew 10:10 ESV

Now when it was evening,
the disciples came to him and said,
“This is a desolate place,
and the day is now over;
send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
Matthew 14:15 ESV

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant,
whom his master has set over his household,
to give them their food at the proper time?
Matthew 24:45 ESV

For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
Matthew 25:35 ESV

For I was hungry and you gave me no food,
I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
Matthew 25:42 ESV

And he answered them,
“Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none,
and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:11 ESV

But he said to them,
“You give them something to eat.”
They said,
“We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”
Luke 9:13 ESV

For life is more than food,
and the body more than clothing.
Luke 12:23 ESV

And the Lord said,
“Who then is the faithful and wise manager,
whom his master will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
Luke 12:42 ESV

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
John 4:8 ESV

But he said to them,
“I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
John 4:32 ESV

Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 4:34 ESV

Do not work for the food that perishes,
but for the food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give to you.
For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:27 ESV

For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.
John 6:55 ESV