but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

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

Whether therefore 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 before that we would walk in them.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

All

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving 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

"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.