Clean And Unclean

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. — read the full passage →

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. — read the full passage →

that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

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.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. — read the full passage →

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. — read the full passage →

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. — read the full passage →

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

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

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. — read the full passage →

At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. — read the full passage →

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.