Verse 15

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
  • Rom 14:23 : 23 But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
  • Luke 11:39-41 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also? 41 But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
  • Matt 15:18 : 18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.