¹⁵ The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”^(A)

²⁵ Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,

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)

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)

¹⁹ since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

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.

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)

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)

⁹ and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.^(A)

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