18 Bible Verses about pork
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If some unbelieving heathen invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question for conscience' sake.
And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
But Peter said, "Never by any means, sir, for I have never eaten anything common, or not ceremonially cleansed."
"You must never give the things that are sacred to dogs, and you must never throw your pearls before hogs, for fear they might trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.
In them is verified the truth of the proverb, "A dog turns back to what he has vomited"; and of that other proverb, "A sow that has washed herself goes back to wallow in the mire."
The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.
Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.
And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs."
The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.
Then the demons came out of the man and went into the hogs, and the drove rushed over the cliff into the lake and were drowned.
One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.
For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;
So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.
Now there was not far from there a large drove of hogs feeding.
He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
A second time the voice came to him, "The things that God has cleansed you must not call unclean."
and saw the sky opened, and something like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the earth by the four corners,