Verse 15

Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:20 : 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
  • Rom 14:23 : 23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 ¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 ¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not 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 destroy both it and them. Now 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 every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
  • Luke 11:39-41 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, ‹Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.› 40 [Ye] ‹fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?› 41 ‹But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.›
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] 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 the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
  • Matt 15:18 : 18 ‹But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.›