Acts 10:15
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15 The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”(A)
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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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Matthew 15:11
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11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”(A)
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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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Mark 7:19
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19 since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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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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Romans 14:14
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14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.(A)
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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 15:9
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9 and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.(A)
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Acts 11:9
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9 But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’
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Galatians 2:12-13
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12 for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.(A) 13 And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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Romans 14:20
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20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat;
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Acts 15:20
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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)
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- 15.20 Other ancient authorities lack and from whatever has been strangled
Revelation 14:20
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20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for a distance of about one thousand six hundred stadia.(A)
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Revelation 14:14-17
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Reaping the Earth’s Harvest
14 Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand!(A) 15 Another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”(B) 16 So the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he, too, had a sharp sickle.
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Hebrews 9:9-10
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9 This is a symbol[a] of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper(A) 10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(B)
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Acts 15:29
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29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”(A)
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- 15.29 Other ancient authorities lack and from what is strangled
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