Romans 14:5

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

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

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,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

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.

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

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

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

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

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

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

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

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.

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.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

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

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

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

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

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?

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

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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

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.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

“ ‘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;

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

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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.

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.

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

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?

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: