Eating Red Meat

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

because every creature of God <FI>is<Fi> good, and nothing <FI>is<Fi> to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, — read the full passage →

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.'

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, — read the full passage →

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;

He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard <FI>it<Fi> , and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard <FI>it<Fi> . He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat--shall not his conscience--he being infirm--be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

because every creature of God <FI>is<Fi> good, and nothing <FI>is<Fi> to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol <FI>is<Fi> nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour, — read the full passage →

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

Thou--who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' --do not eat, because of that one who shewed <FI>it<Fi> , and of the conscience, for the Lord's <FI>is<Fi> the earth and its fulness:

Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

for he who in these things is serving the Christ, <FI>is<Fi> acceptable to God and approved of men.