Colossians 2:16
So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.
Romans 14:5-6
Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind;
Romans 14:10
So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God ??11 for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.
Galatians 4:10
You observe days and months and festal seasons and years!
Hebrews 9:10
since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.
Matthew 15:11
it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."
Mark 2:27-28
And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath:
Mark 7:19
It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).
Acts 11:3-18
"You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!"
Acts 15:20
but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;
Romans 14:2-3
While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.
Romans 14:13-17
So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.
Romans 14:20-21
You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;
1 Corinthians 8:7-13
But remember, it is not everyone who has this 'knowledge.' Some who have hitherto been accustomed to idols eat the food as food which has been really offered to an idol, and so their weaker conscience is contaminated.
1 Corinthians 10:28-31
But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account ??29 his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?
Galatians 2:12-13
Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.
Hebrews 13:9
Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.