Matthew 15:11

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

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

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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

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

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.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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.

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

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

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.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;