clean and unclean

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ²Say to the sons of Israel: These are the animals that you ought to eat out of all the living things of the earth. ³All that has a divided hoof, and that chews over again, among the cattle, you shall eat. ⁴But whatever certainly chews over again, but has a hoof that is not divided, such as the camel and others, these you shall not eat, and you shall consider them to be among what is unclean. ⁵The rock rabbit which chews over again, and whose hoof is not divided, is unclean, ⁶and so also is the hare, for it too chews over again, yet its hoof is not divided,

¹⁴I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.

¹⁷Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean. ¹⁸Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

¹“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead. ²For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth. ³You shall not eat the things that are unclean. ⁴These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat, ⁵the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe. ⁶Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

¹But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas. ²For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants. ³He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him. ⁴Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand. ⁵For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind. ⁶He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

⁸Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.

¹¹A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man.”

¹⁵For behold, the Lord will arrive with fire, and his four-horse chariots will be like a whirlwind: to render his wrath with indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire. ¹⁶For the Lord will divide with fire, and with his sword among all flesh, and those slain by the Lord will be many. ¹⁷Those who were sanctified, who thought themselves to be clean in the gardens behind the inner gate, who were eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they will be consumed all at once, says the Lord.

⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;

⁴And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

²³And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,

²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you collect tithes on mint and dill and cumin, but you have abandoned the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, while not omitting the others.

¹²There is a way which seems just to a man, but its conclusion leads to death.