praying over food
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31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
1Now the Spirit has clearly said that, in the end times, some persons will depart from the faith, paying attention to spirits of error and the doctrines of devils, 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their consciences seared, 3prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood the truth. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving; 5for it has been sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.
35And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to eat.
19And when he had ordered the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish, and gazing up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the bread to the disciples, and then the disciples to the multitudes. 20And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up the remnants: twelve baskets full of fragments. 21Now the number of those who ate was five thousand men, besides women and children.
11A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man.”
10So then, when you have eaten and been satisfied, you should bless the Lord your God for the excellent land which he has given to you.
25And you shall serve the Lord your God, so that I may bless your bread and your waters, and so that I may take away sickness from your midst.
1But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas. 2For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants. 3He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.
21It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
26Now while they were eating the meal, Jesus took bread, and he blessed and broke and gave it to his disciples, and he said: “Take and eat. This is my body.”