¹⁵ all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;

²⁰ for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

¹⁴ I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;

³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

⁴ because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

²³ All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

²³ and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because `it is' not of faith; and all that `is' not of faith is sin.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

¹³ the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

³¹ Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

²⁵ Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

⁷ but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

⁴⁰ unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

⁴¹ But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

¹⁵ and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

¹⁸ but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;