Numbers 25:2
25:2 These women invited
the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Proverbs 23:1-3
23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
consider carefully what is before you,
23:2 and put a knife to your throat
if you possess a large appetite.
23:3 Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies,
for that food is deceptive.
Proverbs 23:6-8
23:6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person,
do not crave his delicacies;
23:7 for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind.
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you;
23:8 you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten,
and will have wasted your pleasant words.
Daniel 1:5-8
1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration
from his royal delicacies
and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained
for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.
1:6 As it turned out,
among these young men
were some from Judah:
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
1:7 But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave
Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego.
1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.
Acts 10:13-14
10:13 Then
a voice said
to him, “Get up, Peter; slaughter
and eat!”
10:14 But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
Acts 10:1
Peter Visits Cornelius
10:1 Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.
Colossians 1:27-28
1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious
riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing
and teaching
all people
with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature
in Christ.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,