Clean and Unclean Meat^(A)

^3 (B)“You shall not eat any ^[a]detestable thing.

¹⁴ So I said, ^(A)“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten ^(B)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^(C)abominable^[a] flesh ever come into my mouth.”

The Law of Love

¹⁴ I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus ^(A)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

^25 (A)You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, ^(B)and you shall not make yourselves ^[a]abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as ^[b]unclean.

^43 (A)You shall not make ^[a]yourselves ^[b]abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.

^15 (A)To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

²⁸ But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it ^(A)for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; ^[a]for ^(B)“the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. ¹³ And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”

¹⁴ But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! ^(A)For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”