17 Bible Verses about pork
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If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.
He answered, "Go!" So they came out of the men, and went into the swine, and behold! the entire herd rushed headlong down from the cliff into the sea, and perished in the water.
"Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."
"Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; lest in turn they trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.
The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.
Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.
and the demons began entreating him. "If you are driving us out," they said, "send us into the herd of swine."
He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.
The demons came out of the man, and entered into the swine; the herd rushed violently down over the cliff into the lake.
For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.
Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.
Now there was, at some distance from them, a herd of many swine feeding;
He continued asking him, "What is your mane?" "Legion is my name, for we are many."
And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
He beheld the sky opened, and a vessel descending like an enormous sail let down to earth by four corners.
