vegetables

The 13 most-voted verses about vegetables, from 9 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

Then 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.

Genesis 1:29 (BSB)

¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Genesis 1:29 (KJV)

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Genesis 1:29 (WEB)

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Daniel 1:12 (BSB)

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel 1:12 (KJV)

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Daniel 1:12 (WEB)

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Genesis 9:3 (BSB)

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Genesis 9:3 (KJV)

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Genesis 9:3 (WEB)

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:2 (BSB)

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

Romans 14:2 (KJV)

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:2 (WEB)

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

Daniel 1:16 (BSB)

Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

Daniel 1:16 (KJV)

So the steward took away their delicacies and the wine that they were given to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel 1:16 (WEB)

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 11:5 (BSB)

We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

Numbers 11:5 (KJV)

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 11:5 (WEB)

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Proverbs 15:17 (BSB)

Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Proverbs 15:17 (KJV)

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Proverbs 15:17 (WEB)

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (BSB)

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (KJV)

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (WEB)

One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

2 Kings 4:39 (BSB)

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.

2 Kings 4:39 (KJV)

One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.

2 Kings 4:39 (WEB)

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (BSB)

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

1 Corinthians 10:31 (KJV)

Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (WEB)

For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:11 (BSB)

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:11 (KJV)

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:11 (WEB)

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:9 (BSB)

¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Ezekiel 4:9 (KJV)

“Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Ezekiel 4:9 (WEB)

Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

Ezekiel 47:12 (BSB)

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Ezekiel 47:12 (KJV)

By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Ezekiel 47:12 (WEB)

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