Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Bible References
Meat
1 Corinthians 6:13
"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:
Romans 14:17
for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.
Colossians 2:20
If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?
Hebrews 13:9
for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.