⁴⁰ Anyone who eats some of its carcass^(A) must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.^(B) Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.

³¹ The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead^(A) or torn by wild animals.^(B)

⁸ He must not eat anything found dead^(A) or torn by wild animals,^(B) and so become unclean^(C) through it. I am the Lord.^(D)

²¹ Do not eat anything you find already dead.^(A) 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.^(B)

Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.^(C)

¹⁴ Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!^(A) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead^(B) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.^(C)”

⁷ But if we walk in the light,^(A) as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all^[a] sin.^(B)

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.^(A)

¹¹ And that is what some of you were.^(A) But you were washed,^(B) you were sanctified,^(C) you were justified^(D) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Cleansing From Sin

13 “On that day a fountain^(A) will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse^(B) them from sin and impurity.