Unclean Foods

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. — 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.

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 →

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — read the full passage →

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me. — read the full passage →

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand. — read the full passage →

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. — read the full passage →

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand. — read the full passage →

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.

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

He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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!

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. — read the full passage →

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. — read the full passage →

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. — read the full passage →

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 →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. — 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;

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

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 →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“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.

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 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.

“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.”

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 →

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

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.

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;

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

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. — read the full passage →

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

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

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — 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.

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 →

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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 →

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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.

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. — read the full passage →

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →

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.’”