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100 Bible Verses about Bread

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 147 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

John 6:32-35 ESV / 140 helpful votes

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 6:50-71 ESV / 123 helpful votes

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ...

Matthew 26:26 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

1 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

John 6:35 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Matthew 6:11 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Give us this day our daily bread,

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

John 6:47-50 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

John 6:55-59 ESV / 59 helpful votes

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Leviticus 26:26 ESV / 56 helpful votes

When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Exodus 29:23 ESV / 54 helpful votes

And one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord.

John 6:51 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

John 6:50 ESV / 48 helpful votes

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

Luke 22:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

1 Kings 17:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Acts 20:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Exodus 29:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.

Genesis 14:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Judges 7:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”

Matthew 13:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes

He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Psalm 81:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Genesis 18:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.”

Acts 2:46 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

1 Samuel 28:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,

Leviticus 23:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes

You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.

Exodus 16:31 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

1 Corinthians 11:24 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 11:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

Matthew 26:26-29 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

Ezekiel 4:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Jeremiah 37:21 ESV / 30 helpful votes

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Isaiah 30:20 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

1 Kings 22:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”

Ruth 2:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

John 4:14 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Hosea 7:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

1 Samuel 2:36 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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.”’”

Numbers 11:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Exodus 12:34 ESV / 27 helpful votes

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

Genesis 18:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

While I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”

John 6:33 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Ezekiel 5:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

When I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

1 Samuel 25:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

Exodus 25:30 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

Genesis 19:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

John 6:48 ESV / 24 helpful votes

I am the bread of life.

John 6:1-71 ESV / 24 helpful votes

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Leviticus 7:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.

Genesis 40:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

John 21:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread.

John 6:44 ESV / 23 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Genesis 27:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Mark 6:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

1 Kings 19:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.

1 Kings 14:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”

Leviticus 2:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

John 6:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”

Isaiah 44:19 ESV / 21 helpful votes

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Exodus 12:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Samuel 6:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

Psalm 127:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Joshua 9:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

Acts 2:42 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Matthew 14:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

1 Samuel 21:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

John 8:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Ruth 1:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.

1 Corinthians 11:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

1 Samuel 21:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

1 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

Leviticus 7:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 8:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

John 6:66-71 ESV / 14 helpful votes

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” ...

Luke 24:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes

When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them.

Matthew 14:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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.”

Lamentations 1:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised.”

1 Chronicles 12:40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

Leviticus 22:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

Leviticus 2:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Lamentations 4:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Proverbs 20:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

Exodus 29:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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