Titus 1:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

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  • Rom 14:20 : 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.
  • Rom 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.
  • Rom 14:23 : 23 But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything. 13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
  • Luke 11:39-41 : 39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well? 41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
  • Matt 15:18 : 18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

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  • 16They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

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    13Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

    14and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

  • 12There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • 3And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

  • 14I 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.

  • 20Do 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.

  • 15There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

  • 5But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

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    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

    22But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

  • 20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

  • 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • 18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

  • 4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

  • 1Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

  • Mark 7:18-20
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    18He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

    20He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.

  • 22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 23All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

  • 7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

  • 9holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

  • 8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.

  • 21So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

  • 27You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

  • 10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • 11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

  • 3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

  • 19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • Rom 1:28-29
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    28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

  • 10so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

  • 10not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

  • 16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

  • 8The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.

  • 27Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

  • 3or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

  • 10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

  • 7For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

  • 15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

  • 15to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

  • 13But all things being exposed by the light are made visible.

  • 9But concerning the one who lacks such things– he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

  • 4The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

  • 36However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

  • 22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • 9and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • 8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • 26The LORD abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.