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My heart is struck down like grass and has withered;I forget to eat my bread.
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another -
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, "Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
"Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;do not desire his delicacies,
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,and he who guards his master will be honored.
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
For you are my rock and my fortress;and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,for you judge the peoples with equityand guide the nations upon earth. Selah