Mark 7:15
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15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”[a]
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- 7.15 Other ancient authorities add 7.16: “If you have ears to hear, then hear”
Titus 1:15
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15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.(A)
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Proverbs 4:23
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23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.(A)
Leviticus 11:42-47
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42 Whatever moves on its belly and whatever moves on all fours or whatever has many feet, all the creatures that swarm upon the earth you shall not eat, for they are detestable. 43 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creature that swarms; you shall not defile yourselves with them and so become unclean.(A) 44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.(B) 45 For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.(C)
46 “This is the law pertaining to land animal and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth, 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.”(D)
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Hebrews 13:9
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9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,[a] which have not benefited those who observe them.(A)
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- 13.9 Gk not by foods
Hebrews 9:10
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10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(A)
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Romans 14:17
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17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.(A)
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Mark 7:18-23
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18 He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, 19 since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. 21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
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1 Timothy 4:3-5
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3 They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.(A) 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,(B) 5 for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
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1 Corinthians 10:25
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25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,
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Acts 15:20-21
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20 but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled[a] and from blood.(A) 21 For in every city, for generations past, Moses has had those who proclaim him, for he has been read aloud every Sabbath in the synagogues.”(B)
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- 15.20 Other ancient authorities lack and from whatever has been strangled
Acts 10:28
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28 and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is improper for a Jew to associate with or to visit an outsider, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.(A)
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Acts 10:14-16
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14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”(A) 15 The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”(B) 16 This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven.
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Matthew 15:16
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16 Then he said, “Are you also still without understanding?(A)
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Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(A)
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Acts 11:8-10
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8 But I replied, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’ 10 This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven.
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