Bible Cross References
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.
Ezekiel 44:23
"The priests are to teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not, and between what is ritually clean and what is not.
Malachi 3:18
Once again my people will see the difference between what happens to the righteous and to the wicked, to the person who serves me and the one who does not."
Romans 14:2
Some people's faith allows them to eat anything, but the person who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables.
Romans 14:3
The person who will eat anything is not to despise the one who doesn't; while the one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything; for God has accepted that person.
Romans 14:13-23
13
So then, let us stop judging one another. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make others stumble or fall into sin.
14
My union with the Lord Jesus makes me certain that no food is of itself ritually unclean; but if you believe that some food is unclean, then it becomes unclean for you.
15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
16
Do not let what you regard as good get a bad name.
17
For God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.
18
And when you serve Christ in this way, you please God and are approved by others.
19
So then, we must always aim at those things that bring peace and that help strengthen one another.
20
Do not, because of food, destroy what God has done. All foods may be eaten, but it is wrong to eat anything that will cause someone else to fall into sin.
21
The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make other believers fall.
22
Keep what you believe about this matter, then, between yourself and God. Happy are those who do not feel guilty when they do something they judge is right!
23
But if they have doubts about what they eat, God condemns them when they eat it, because their action is not based on faith. And anything that is not based on faith is sin.