²⁴ By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:

⁸ Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

¹⁶ For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

¹⁷ For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

¹⁴ And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

¹⁵ And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

¹⁶ But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

³⁸ But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.

³⁹ And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

⁴⁰ And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

³¹ All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

²⁷ Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.

²⁸ Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.