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BIBLE COOKBOOK

RECIPES FOR LIFEScripture Verses and Passages United by the Common Theme of Food, Beverages and Dining

1. Appetizers

2. Beverages

3. Breads & Grains

4. Condiments & Spices

5. Dairy Products

6. Dining Etiquette

7. Dinner Invitations

8. Entrees & Sides

A BIBLE COOK BOOKRECIPES FOR LIFE

CONTENTS

9. Fruits & Vegetables

10. Healthy Choices

11. Lunch Menus

12. Meat & Fish

13. Shopping Tips

14. Special Diets

15. Sweet Things

16. Tableware

17. When You Are the Main Course

TASTY TALESRumors are dainty morsels

that sink deep into one’s heart.Proverbs 18:8

New Living Translation

Appetizers

Glutton for the Word of GodWhen your words showed up, I ate them—

swallowed them whole. What a feast! Jeremiah 15:16 The Message

Appetizers

Jesus said: “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!”Matthew 23:23-24 New Living Translation

One Hump or Two?

Beverages

Tastes Great, More Filling!And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

Ephesians 5:17-21 NASB

Beverages

TOASTDo not lust in your heart after her beautyor let her captivate you with her eyes,for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:25-26 NIV

Breads & Grains

Peace FeastBetter a dry crust with peace and quietthan a house full of feasting, with strife.

Proverbs 17:1 NIV

Breads & Grains

Condiments & Spices

SEASONED SPEECHBe wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 4:5-6 NIV

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!

Dairy Products

His speech was smooth as butter,yet war was in his heart;

his words were softer than oil,yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 55:21 ESV

Milk MoneyCome, all you who

are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have

no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and

milk without money and without cost.

Isaiah 55:1 NIV

Dairy Products

PRESUMED INNOCENTThis is the way of an adulteress:

She eats and wipes her mouthand says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

Proverbs 30:20 NIV

Dining Etiquette

RESERVATIONS FOR TWOJesus said: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.”

Rev. 3:20 NASB

Dinner Invitations

SHEPHERD’S PIEThe Lord is my shepherd…Even when I walk

through the darkest valley,I will not be afraid,

for you are close beside me.Your rod and your staff

protect and comfort me.You prepare a feast for me

in the presence of my enemies.Psalm 23:1, 4-5 New Living Translation

Entrées & Sides

BELOVED BROCCOLIBetter a meal of vegetables where there is love

than a fattened calf with hatred.Proverbs 15:17 NIV

Fruits & Vegetables

Fruits & Vegetables

FOCUS

My son, keep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live,And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:1-2 NASB

Healthy Choices

HOLINESS HEALTH NUTFor I have stayed on God’s paths;I have followed his ways and not turned aside.

I have not departed from his commands,but have treasured his words more than daily food.

Job 23:11-12 New Living Translation

ESAU’S FLAWSWatch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God’s blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.Hebrews 12:16-17The Message

Healthy Choices

Today’s SpecialMeanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.” But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.” “Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other. Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.”

John 4:31-34 New Living Translation

Lunch Menus

Shelf LifeJesus said: “Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you…”John 6:27 KJV

Meat & Fish

Meat & Fish

Whoever is slothful will not roast his game,but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Proverbs 12:27 ESV

PRIORITIESWe work to feed our appetites; Meanwhile our souls go hungry.Ecclesiastes 6:7 The Message

Shopping Tips

Why do you spend money for what is not bread,And your wages for what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,And delight yourself in abundance.

Isaiah 55:2 NASB

Good Question

Shopping Tips

Snooze—You LoseHe who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,

but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.Proverbs 10:5 NIV

Shopping Tips

Special Diets

Mournful MenuMy tears have been my food

day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm 42:3-6 NIV

SOUL FOODYour words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 15:16 Amplified Bible

Special Diets

Sweet ToothHow sweet are Your words to my taste!Yes, sweeter than

honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103 NASB

Sweet Things

Available for Honorable UseIn a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.

2 Timothy 2:20-21 New Living Translation

Tableware

OVERBITEThere are … those whose teeth are swords

and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Proverbs 30:11, 14 NIV

Tableware

OVERFLOWINGThou … anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 KJV

Tableware

Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon and devour.

1 Peter 5:8 Amplified Bible

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Cannibal TreatsFor you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:13-15 ESV

Man-sized AppetiteAn adulterous woman consumes a man, then

wipes her mouth and says, “What’s wrong with that?”Proverbs 30:20 New Living Translation

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Swallowed by DeathThis is the fate of those who trust in themselves,

and of their followers, who approve their sayings. Like sheep they are destined for the grave,

and death will feed on them.The upright will rule over them in the morning;

their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself.

Psalm 49:12-14 NIV

When YOU Are

the Main Course