For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat.

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not allow anything to control me.

However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

The work

For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

All

I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean to a person who thinks it is unclean.

It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean."

Again the voice came to him a second time, "You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean."

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.

General references

"Meat that comes in contact with a ceremonially unclean thing is not to be eaten. Incinerate it instead. As for ceremonially clean meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.

However, the priests are not to eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or that has been torn apart."

Do not be concerned about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others.