^2 (A)One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus ^(A)that nothing is unclean in itself, ^(B)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

^20 (A)Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. ^(B)Everything is indeed clean, but ^(C)it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

⁴ For ^(A)everything created by God is good, and ^(B)nothing is to be rejected if it is ^(C)received with thanksgiving,

^15 (A)To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and ^(B)unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both ^(C)their minds and their consciences are defiled.

^11 (A)it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

^15 (A)There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”^[a]

¹⁹ since it enters not his heart ^(A)but his stomach, and is expelled?”^[a] (^(B)Thus he declared all foods clean.)

^25 (A)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.