Romans 14:20

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

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

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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.

He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

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

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

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.

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.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

“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,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

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

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

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.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

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

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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.

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.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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

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

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

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

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

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

“ ‘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;

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.