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.

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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)

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15 (A)To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

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15 To the pure, all things are pure,(A) but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.(B) In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.(C)

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For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

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For everything God created is good,(A) and nothing is to be rejected(B) if it is received with thanksgiving,

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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.

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But not everyone possesses this knowledge.(A) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,(B) it is defiled.

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For one believes he (A)may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.(A)

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14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! (A)For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”

15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, (B)“What God has [a]cleansed you must not call common.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 10:15 Declared clean

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)

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But I said, ‘Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth.’ But the voice answered me again from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’

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“I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

“The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’(A)

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10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not (A)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

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10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?(A)

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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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28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.(A) But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.(B)

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25 (A)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake;

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25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,(A)

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23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for (A)whatever is not from faith is [a]sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 14:23 M puts Rom. 16:25–27 here.

23 But whoever has doubts(A) is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 14:20 A feeling of giving offense

20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.(A) All food is clean,(B) but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.(C)

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