¹⁵ The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”^(A)

²⁵ Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,^(A)

¹¹ What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,^(A) but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”^(B)

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure,^(A) but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.^(B) In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.^(C)

³ They forbid people to marry^(A) and order them to abstain from certain foods,^(B) which God created^(C) to be received with thanksgiving^(D) by those who believe and who know the truth. ⁴ For everything God created is good,^(E) and nothing is to be rejected^(F) if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ because it is consecrated by the word of God^(G) and prayer.