¹⁵ And the voice came to him again a second time, ^(A)“What God has made clean, do not call common.”

^25 (A)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

^11 (A)it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

^15 (A)To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and ^(B)unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both ^(C)their minds and their consciences are defiled.

¹⁹ since it enters not his heart ^(A)but his stomach, and is expelled?”^[a] (^(B)Thus he declared all foods clean.)

^3 (A)who forbid marriage and ^(B)require abstinence from foods ^(C)that God created ^(D)to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴ For ^(E)everything created by God is good, and ^(F)nothing is to be rejected if it is ^(G)received with thanksgiving, ⁵ for it is made holy ^(H)by the word of God and prayer.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus ^(A)that nothing is unclean in itself, ^(B)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

²⁸ And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew ^(A)to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but ^(B)God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

⁹ and ^(A)he made no distinction between us and them, ^(B)having cleansed their hearts ^(C)by faith.

⁹ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’