Bible Verses About Bread

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

~Luke 22:19

Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

~Judges 7:13

The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.

~Jeremiah 7:18

He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

~Matthew 13:33

 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”

~Genesis 18:6

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.”

When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.

~Ruth 2:14

From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord.

~Leviticus 23:17

 The people of Israel called the bread manna.^] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

~Exodus 16:31

nd say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.’”

~1 Kings 22:27

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

~Acts 2:46

Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.”

~Genesis 18:5

The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.

~1 Samuel 28:24

King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

~Jeremiah 37:21

Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.

~Isaiah 30:20

Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.”’”

~1 Samuel 2:36

²⁶ While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

²⁷ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. ²⁸ This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. ²⁹ I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

~Matthew 26:26-29

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,

~1 Corinthians 11:23

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.

~Exodus 12:34

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 11:24

He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,

~Ezekiel 4:16

By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”

~Genesis 3:19

But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

~John 4:14

 Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.

~Leviticus 7:13

They are all adulterers,
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

~Hosea 7:4

“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

~Ezekiel 4:9

When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.

~Ezekiel 5:16

That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

~Exodus 12:8

Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

~1 Samuel 25:18

Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

~Exodus 25:30

Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

~Genesis 27:17

The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

~Numbers 11:8

“‘If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of the finest flour: either thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in or thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

~Leviticus 2:4

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

~Genesis 40:2

 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

~1 Kings 19:6

 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

~Genesis 19:3

“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

~John 6:9

 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

~Exodus 12:18

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

~John 6:33

When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.

~John 21:9

 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”

They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

~Mark 6:37

No one stops to think,
    no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,
“Half of it I used for fuel;
    I even baked bread over its coals,
    I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left?
    Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

~Isaiah 44:19

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is.

~Joshua 9:12

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

~1 Kings 14:3

When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

~Ruth 1:6

She watches over the affairs of her household
    and does not eat the bread of idleness.

~Proverbs 31:27

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

~1 Samuel 21:6

 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.

~2 Samuel 6:19

 I am the bread of life.

~John 6:48

Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.

~Proverbs 30:8

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

~1 Corinthians 11:26

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

~1 Samuel 8:13

Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,

~Exodus 23:25

Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

~Leviticus 7:9

But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”

~1 Samuel 21:4

Bnd you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.’”

~Leviticus 22:25

All her people groan
    as they search for bread;
they barter their treasures for food
    to keep themselves alive.
“Look, Lord, and consider,
    for I am despised.”

~Lamentations 1:11

Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

~1 Corinthians 5:8

If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of the finest flour mixed with oil, and without yeast.

~Leviticus 2:5

Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

~1 Chronicles 12:40

 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

~1 Corinthians 5:7

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ 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.” ²⁵ In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

~1 Corinthians 11:23-25

 At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.

~Exodus 29:32

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.

~Lamentations 4:4

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet,
    but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.

~Proverbs 20:17

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

~Luke 24:30 

 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

~Genesis 39:6

Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

~2 Kings 23:9

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

~Exodus 16:4

On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

~Leviticus 23:6

At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

~John 6:41

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

~Acts 2:42

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.

~Leviticus 21:21

“Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

~Leviticus 21:17

They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the Lord, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

~Leviticus 21:6

Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.

~Leviticus 21:8

“Then you will go on from there until you reach the great tree of Tabor. Three men going up to worship God at Bethel will meet you there. One will be carrying three young goats, another three loaves of bread, and another a skin of wine.

~1 Samuel 10:3

 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

~1 Corinthians 11:27

The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

~Mark 8:14

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ 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 11:23-24

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

~Matthew 7:9

⁵ When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. ⁶ “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

⁷ They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.”

⁸ Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? ⁹ Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? ¹¹ How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

~Matthew 16:5-12

Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

~Luke 24:35

 His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”

~Matthew 15:33

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.

~Matthew 14:17

³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

~John 6:33-35

³ The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

~Matthew 4:3-4

³ The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.

~Luke 4:3-4

In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”

~Mark 2:26

 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

~John 6:51

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

~John 6:35

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’

~Matthew 4:4

 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

~Matthew 26:26

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for^[a] a fish, will give him a snake instead?

~Luke 11:11

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

~Luke 11:5

I was young and now I am old,
    yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken
    or their children begging bread.

~Psalm 37:25

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

~John 6:31

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

~Ecclesiastes 9:7

Give us today our daily bread.

~Matthew 6:11

He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

~Matthew 15:26

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

~2 Corinthians 9:10

 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

~1 Kings 17:13

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

~Deuteronomy 8:3

Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

~1 Corinthians 11:28

So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

~1 Samuel 16:20

Wine that gladdens human hearts,
    oil to make their faces shine,
    and bread that sustains their hearts.

~Psalm 104:15

 A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.

~2 Kings 4:42

Some of the Kohathites, their fellow Levites, were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table.

~1 Chronicles 9:32

“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah  for each loaf.

~Leviticus 24:5

Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes and bowls, and the jars for drink offerings; the bread that is continually there is to remain on it.

~Numbers 4:7

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,

~Genesis 14:18

³² Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

~John 6:32-35

⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

~John 6:55-59

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

~Leviticus 26:26

⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. ⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.

~John 6:47-50

From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the Lord, take one round loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf.

~Exodus 29:23

But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.

~John 6:50

As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

~1 Kings 17:12

And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

~Exodus 29:2

Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
    and you will delight in the richest of fare.

~Isaiah 55:2

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.

~Acts 20:7

¹⁶ Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. ¹⁷ They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

~Luke 9:16-17

Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

~Exodus 34:28

²³ One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

²⁵ He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? ²⁶ In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”

²⁷ Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. ²⁸ So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

~Mark 2:23-28