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Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat 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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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

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

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

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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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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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29 God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.(A)

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