My union with the Lord Jesus makes me certain that no food is of itself ritually unclean; but if you believe that some food is unclean, then it becomes unclean for you.

You are free to eat anything sold in the meat market, without asking any questions because of your conscience.

Before some men who had been sent by James arrived there, Peter had been eating with the Gentile believers. But after these men arrived, he drew back and would not eat with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who were in favor of circumcising them.

Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been defiled.

since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order.

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.

Keep what you believe about this matter, then, between yourself and God. Happy are those who do not feel guilty when they do something they judge is right!

But if they have doubts about what they eat, God condemns them when they eat it, because their action is not based on faith. And anything that is not based on faith is sin.

I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;

Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.

"Test us for ten days," he said. "Give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

So from then on the guard let them continue to eat vegetables instead of what the king provided.