18 Bible Verses about pork
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If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples.
"Go," he said. The spirits came out, and entered the pigs; and the whole drove rushed down the steep slope into the Sea, and died in the water.
"No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'."
Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
In their case is seen the truth of the proverb-- 'A dog returns to what he has vomited' and 'A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.'
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.
Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.
And the foul spirits began begging Jesus: "If you drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs."
The man who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains from it; nor must the man who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received him.
They came out from the man and took possession of the pigs; and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.
One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;
Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.
A long way off, there was a drove of many pigs, feeding;
And he asked him: "What is your name?" "My name," he said, "is Legion, for there are many of us;"
Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."
And saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth.
