but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

The work

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

All

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

General references

‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.