Leviticus 11:8
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8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. (A)They are unclean to you.
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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
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
Hosea 9:3
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3 They shall not dwell in (A)the Lord’s land,
(B)But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And (C)shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Isaiah 52:11
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11 (A)Depart! Depart! Go out from there,
Touch no unclean thing;
Go out from the midst of her,
(B)Be clean,
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.
Leviticus 5:2
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2 ‘Or (A)if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it, he also shall be unclean and (B)guilty.
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Colossians 2:21-23
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21 (A)“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—(B)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 (C)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and [a]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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- Colossians 2:23 severe treatment, asceticism
Ephesians 5:11
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11 And have (A)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [a]expose them.
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- Ephesians 5:11 reprove
Ephesians 5:7
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7 Therefore do not be (A)partakers with them.
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2 Corinthians 6:17
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17 Therefore
(A)“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
1 Corinthians 8:8
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8 But (A)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.
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Romans 14:21
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21 It is good neither to eat (A)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles [a]or is offended or is made weak.
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- Romans 14:21 NU omits the rest of v. 21.
Romans 14:14-17
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The Law of Love
14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus (A)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. (B)Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. 16 (C)Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; 17 (D)for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and (E)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 15:29
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29 (A)that you abstain from things offered to idols, (B)from blood, from things strangled, and from (C)sexual[a] immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.
Farewell.
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- Acts 15:29 Or fornication
Acts 10:28
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28 Then he said to them, “You know how (A)unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But (B)God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
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Acts 10:10-15
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10 Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance 11 and (A)saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 13 And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! (B)For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, (C)“What God has [a]cleansed you must not call common.”
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- Acts 10:15 Declared clean
Mark 7:18
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18 So He said to them, (A)“Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
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Mark 7:15
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15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that (A)defile a man.
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Mark 7:2
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2 Now [a]when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with (A)unwashed hands, [b]they found fault.
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Matthew 15:20
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20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
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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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