Colossians 2:16
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16 So let no one (A)judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a [a]festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
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- Colossians 2:16 feast day
Romans 14:5-6
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5 (A)One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who (B)observes the day, observes it to the Lord; [a]and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for (C)he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
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- Romans 14:6 NU omits the rest of this sentence.
Romans 14:10
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10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For (A)we shall all stand before the judgment seat of [a]Christ.
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- Romans 14:10 NU God
Romans 14:13-17
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13 Therefore let us not judge one another [a]anymore, but rather resolve this, (A)not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
The Law of Love
14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus (B)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. (C)Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. 16 (D)Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; 17 (E)for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and (F)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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- Romans 14:13 any longer
Galatians 4:10
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10 (A)You observe days and months and seasons and years.
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Hebrews 13:9
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9 Do not be carried [a]about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
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- Hebrews 13:9 NU, M away
Romans 14:2-3
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2 For one believes he (A)may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and (B)let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
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Ezekiel 45:17
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17 Then it shall be the (A)prince’s part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
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Nehemiah 10:33
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33 for (A)the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the (B)regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
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1 Chronicles 23:31
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31 and at every presentation of a burnt offering to the Lord (A)on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the (B)set[a] feasts, by number according to the ordinance governing them, regularly before the Lord;
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- 1 Chronicles 23:31 appointed feasts
Mark 2:27-28
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27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the (A)Sabbath. 28 Therefore (B)the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”
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Matthew 15:11
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11 (A)Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
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Hebrews 9:10
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10 concerned only with (A)foods and drinks, (B)various [a]washings, (C)and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
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- Hebrews 9:10 Lit. baptisms
1 Timothy 4:3-5
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3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is [a]sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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- 1 Timothy 4:5 set apart
James 4:11
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Do Not Judge a Brother
11 (A)Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother (B)and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Galatians 2:12-13
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12 for before certain men came from James, (A)he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing [a]those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
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- Galatians 2:12 Jewish Christians
1 Corinthians 10:28-31
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28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it (A)for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; [a]for (B)“the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” 29 “Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For (C)why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience? 30 But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for the food (D)over which I give thanks?
31 (E)Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 10:28 NU omits the rest of v. 28.
Romans 14:20-21
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20 (A)Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. (B)All things indeed are pure, (C)but it is evil for the man who eats with [a]offense. 21 It is good neither to eat (D)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles [b]or is offended or is made weak.
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- Romans 14:20 A feeling of giving offense
- Romans 14:21 NU omits the rest of v. 21.
Acts 11:3-18
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3 saying, (A)“You went in to uncircumcised men (B)and ate with them!”
4 But Peter explained it to them (C)in order from the beginning, saying: 5 (D)“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came to me. 6 When I observed it intently and considered, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 7 And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth.’ 9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’ 10 Now this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. 11 At that very moment, three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea. 12 Then (E)the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover (F)these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 (G)And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter, 14 who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.’ 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, (H)as upon us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, (I)‘John indeed baptized with water, but (J)you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 (K)If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, (L)who was I that I could withstand God?”
18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, (M)“Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”
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Mark 7:19
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19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, [a]thus purifying all foods?”
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- Mark 7:19 NU sets off the final phrase as Mark’s comment that Jesus has declared all foods clean.
1 Corinthians 8:7-13
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7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, (A)with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is (B)defiled. 8 But (C)food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
9 But (D)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become (E)a [a]stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not (F)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And (G)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But (H)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, (I)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:9 cause of offense
Acts 15:20
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20 but that we (A)write to them to abstain (B)from things polluted by idols, (C)from [a]sexual immorality, (D)from things strangled, and from blood.
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- Acts 15:20 Or fornication
Numbers 28:1-29
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Daily Offerings(A)
28 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘My offering, (B)My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time.’
3 “And you shall say to them, (C)‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, 5 and (D)one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a (E)grain offering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil. 6 It is (F)a regular burnt offering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 7 And its drink offering shall be one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; (G)in a holy place you shall pour out the drink to the Lord as an offering. 8 The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; as the morning grain offering and its drink offering, you shall offer it as an offering made by fire, a [a]sweet aroma to the Lord.
Sabbath Offerings
9 ‘And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering— 10 this is (H)the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.
Monthly Offerings
11 (I)‘At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish; 12 (J)three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13 and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering of sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 14 Their drink offering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year. 15 Also (K)one kid of the goats as a sin offering to the Lord shall be offered, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Offerings at Passover(L)
16 (M)‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. 17 (N)And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. 18 On the (O)first day you shall have a holy [b]convocation. You shall do no [c]customary work. 19 And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. (P)Be sure they are without blemish. 20 Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram; 21 you shall offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; 22 also (Q)one goat as a sin offering, to make [d]atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. 24 In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 And (R)on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
Offerings at the Feast of Weeks(S)
26 ‘Also (T)on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. 27 You shall present a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: (U)two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, 28 with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram, 29 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs;
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- Numbers 28:8 pleasing
- Numbers 28:18 assembly or gathering
- Numbers 28:18 occupational
- Numbers 28:22 Lit. covering
Ezekiel 46:1-3
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The Manner of Worship
46 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six (A)working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened. 2 (B)The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and the New Moons.
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Ezekiel 4:14
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14 So I said, (A)“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten (B)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has (C)abominable[a] flesh ever come into my mouth.”
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- Ezekiel 4:14 Ritually unclean flesh, Lev. 7:18
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