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Genesis 9:3
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Genesis 9:3
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3 I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.
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Genesis 9:3
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Genesis 9:3
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3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(A) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(B)
Romans 14:14
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Romans 14:14
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14 I know and am convinced on the authority of the Lord Jesus that no food, in and of itself, is wrong to eat. But if someone believes it is wrong, then for that person it is wrong.
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Romans 14:14
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Romans 14:14
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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)
Colossians 2:21-22
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Colossians 2:21-22
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21 “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? 22 Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them.
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Colossians 2:21-22
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Colossians 2:21-22
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21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish(A) with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.(B)
Deuteronomy 12:15
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Deuteronomy 12:15
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15 “But you may butcher your animals and eat their meat in any town whenever you want. You may freely eat the animals with which the Lord your God blesses you. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you now eat gazelle and deer.
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Deuteronomy 12:15
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Deuteronomy 12:15
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15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer,(A) according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
1 Timothy 4:3-5
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1 Timothy 4:3-5
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3 They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth. 4 Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks. 5 For we know it is made acceptable[a] by the word of God and prayer.
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- 4:5 Or made holy.
1 Timothy 4:3-5
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1 Timothy 4:3-5
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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.
1 Corinthians 10:31
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1 Corinthians 10:31
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31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
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1 Corinthians 10:31
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1 Corinthians 10:31
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31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.(A)
Colossians 2:16
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Colossians 2:16
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16 So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
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1 Corinthians 10:25-26
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1 Corinthians 10:25-26
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25 So you may eat any meat that is sold in the marketplace without raising questions of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”[a]
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1 Corinthians 10:25-26
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1 Corinthians 10:25-26
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25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,(A) 26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”[a](B)
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- 1 Corinthians 10:26 Psalm 24:1
1 Corinthians 10:23
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1 Corinthians 10:23
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23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”[a]—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial.
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1 Corinthians 10:23
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1 Corinthians 10:23
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23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial.(A) “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
Romans 14:3
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Romans 14:3
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3 Those who feel free to eat anything must not look down on those who don’t. And those who don’t eat certain foods must not condemn those who do, for God has accepted them.
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Romans 14:3
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Romans 14:3
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3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt(A) the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge(B) the one who does, for God has accepted them.
Acts 10:12-15
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Acts 10:12-15
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12 In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. 13 Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”
14 “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.[a]”
15 But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”
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- 10:14 Greek anything common and unclean.
Acts 10:12-15
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Acts 10:12-15
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12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!”(A) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”(B)
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”(C)
Psalm 104:14-15
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Psalm 104:14-15
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14 You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
15 wine to make them glad,
olive oil to soothe their skin,
and bread to give them strength.
Deuteronomy 14:3-21
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Deuteronomy 14:3-21
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3 “You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean. 4 These are the animals[a] you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 “You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud, 7 but if the animal doesn’t have both, it may not be eaten. So you may not eat the camel, the hare, or the hyrax.[b] They chew the cud but do not have split hooves, so they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 And you may not eat the pig. It has split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is ceremonially unclean for you. You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses.
9 “Of all the marine animals, you may eat whatever has both fins and scales. 10 You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
11 “You may eat any bird that is ceremonially clean. 12 These are the birds you may not eat: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13 the kite, the falcon, buzzards of all kinds, 14 ravens of all kinds, 15 the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the seagull, hawks of all kinds, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl, 17 the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 “All winged insects that walk along the ground are ceremonially unclean for you and may not be eaten. 20 But you may eat any winged bird or insect that is ceremonially clean.
21 “You must not eat anything that has died a natural death. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, or you may sell it to a stranger. But do not eat it yourselves, for you are set apart as holy to the Lord your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Deuteronomy 14:3-21
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Deuteronomy 14:3-21
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3 Do not eat any detestable thing.(A) 4 These are the animals you may eat:(B) the ox, the sheep, the goat,(C) 5 the deer,(D) the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat,(E) the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.[a] 6 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. 7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.(F)
9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13 the red kite, the black kite, any kind(G) of falcon,(H) 14 any kind of raven,(I) 15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17 the desert owl,(J) the osprey, the cormorant, 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19 All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.(K)
21 Do not eat anything you find already dead.(L) You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.(M)
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(N)
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- Deuteronomy 14:5 The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain.
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