Mark 7:2

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

“ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;

You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’ ”

“ ‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,