Acts 11:7-9
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; slaughter
and eat!’
11:8 But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean
has ever entered my mouth!’
11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider
ritually unclean!’
Acts 15:20-21
15:20 but that we should write them a letter
telling them to abstain
from things defiled
by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled
and from blood.
15:21 For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times,
because he is read aloud
in the synagogues
every Sabbath.”
Acts 15:29
15:29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols
and from blood and from what has been strangled
and from sexual immorality.
If you keep yourselves from doing these things,
you will do well. Farewell.
Acts 21:25
21:25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided
that they should avoid
meat that has been sacrificed to idols
and blood and what has been strangled
and sexual immorality.”
Romans 14:14
14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
Romans 14:20
14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean,
it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
Romans 14:1
Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance
14:1 Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.
Colossians 1:23
1:23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,
without shifting
from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
Colossians 1:25
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship
from God – given to me for you – in order to complete
the word of God,