Romans 14:2

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.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

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

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

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;

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

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

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.

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

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

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.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

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.

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,

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.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

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

“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.

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

Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

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

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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?

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

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

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.

Give us today our daily bread.

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

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

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.

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.

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.