Matthew 16:7

A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

“ ‘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.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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

The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

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.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.