Romans 14:14 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁴ Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

¹⁴ "No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'." ¹⁵ Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

²⁸ "You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

⁸ 'No, Lord, I cannot,' I answered, 'for nothing 'defiled' or 'unclean' has ever passed my lips.' ⁹ Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. "What God has pronounced 'clean'," it said, "you must not call 'defiled'."

² One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.

²³ He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

²⁵ Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;

⁴ Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

¹⁵ Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.