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Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.(A)

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

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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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22 Hold the conviction that you have as your own before God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves because of what they approve. 23 But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat because they do not act from faith,[a] for whatever does not proceed from faith[b] is sin.[c]

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  1. 14.23 Or conviction
  2. 14.23 Or conviction
  3. 14.23 Other ancient authorities add here 16.25–27

22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn(A) himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts(B) 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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  1. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.(A)

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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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17 Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
    than a fatted ox and hatred with it.(A)

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17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.(A)

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Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,[a] which have not benefited those who observe them.(A)

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  1. 13.9 Gk not by foods

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.(A) It is good for our hearts to be strengthened(B) by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods,(C) which is of no benefit to those who do so.(D)

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12 for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.(A)

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12 For before certain men came from James,(A) he used to eat with the Gentiles.(B) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.(C)

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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.(A)

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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)

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10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(A)

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10 They are only a matter of food(A) and drink(B) and various ceremonial washings(C)—external regulations(D) applying until the time of the new order.

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15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.(A)

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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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25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,

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

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12 “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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12 “Please test(A) your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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16 So the guard continued to withdraw their royal rations and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables.

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16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.(A)

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