Colossians 2:16 Cross References - ACV

¹⁶ Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

² Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. ³ Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. ⁴ Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you. ⁵ And the coney, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you. ⁶ And the hare, because she chews the cud but does not part the hoof, she is unclean to you. ⁷ And the swine, because he parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you. ⁸ Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch, they are unclean to you. ⁹ These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat. ¹⁰ And all that have no fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, ¹¹ and they shall be an abomination to you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in abomination. ¹² Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you. ¹³ And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey, ¹⁴ and the kite, and the falcon after its kind, ¹⁵ every raven after its kind, ¹⁶ and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind, ¹⁷ and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, ¹⁸ and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, ¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. ²⁰ All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination to you. ²¹ Yet these ye may eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap upon the earth, ²² even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. ²³ But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you, ²⁴ and by these ye shall become unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁵ And whoever bears any of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. ²⁶ Every beast which parts the hoof, and is not cloven footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. ²⁷ And whatever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁸ And he who bears the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you. ²⁹ And these are those which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, ³⁰ and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon. ³¹ These are those which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening. ³² And upon whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean, whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack. Whatever vessel it be, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, then it shall be clean. ³³ And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and ye shall break it. ³⁴ All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean, and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. ³⁵ And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean, whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. ³⁶ Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. ³⁷ And if any of their carcass falls upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. ³⁸ But if water is put upon the seed, and any of their carcass falls in it, it is unclean to you. ³⁹ And if any beast, of which ye may eat, dies, he who touches the carcass of it shall be unclean until the evening. ⁴⁰ And he who eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. ⁴¹ And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten. ⁴² Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination. ⁴³ Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled by it. ⁴⁴ For I am LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and become ye holy, since I am holy. Neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. ⁴⁶ This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth, ⁴⁷ to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

³¹ It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

¹⁰ And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. ¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. ¹² Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood. ¹³ And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood of it, and cover it with dust. ¹⁴ For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is with the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood of it. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. ¹⁵ And every soul who eats that which dies of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening, then he shall be clean.

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, The set feasts of LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts. ³ Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. Ye shall do no manner of work. It is a sabbath to LORD in all your dwellings. ⁴ These are the set feasts of LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season: ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is LORD's Passover. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to LORD. Ye shall eat unleavened bread seven days. ⁷ In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ⁸ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation, ye shall do no job work. ⁹ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest. ¹¹ And he shall wave the sheaf before LORD, to be accepted for you. On the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹² And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to LORD. ¹³ And the meal offering of it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to LORD for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. ¹⁴ And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ¹⁵ And ye shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, there shall be complete seven sabbaths. ¹⁶ Ye shall number fifty days, even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath, and ye shall offer a new meal offering to LORD. ¹⁷ Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour. They shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits to LORD. ¹⁸ And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to LORD, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD. ¹⁹ And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. ²⁰ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave offering before LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to LORD for the priest. ²¹ And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day, there shall be a holy convocation to you. Ye shall do no job work. It is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. ²² And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shall not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shall thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. Thou shall leave them for the poor man, and for the sojourner. I am LORD your God. ²³ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵ Ye shall do no job work, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. ²⁶ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. ²⁸ And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before LORD your God. ²⁹ For whatever soul it be who shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰ And whatever soul it be who does any manner of work in that same day, that soul I will destroy from among his people. ³¹ Ye shall do no manner of work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³² It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, ye shall keep your sabbath. ³³ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days to LORD. ³⁵ On the first day shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. It is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no job work. ³⁷ These are the set feasts of LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day. ³⁸ Besides the sabbaths of LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which ye give to LORD. ³⁹ However on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. ⁴⁰ And ye shall take to you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before LORD your God seven days. ⁴¹ And ye shall keep it a feast to LORD seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. Ye shall keep it in the seventh month. ⁴² Ye shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths, ⁴³ that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am LORD your God. ⁴⁴ And Moses declared to the sons of Israel the set feasts of LORD.

¹⁰ Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am LORD your God.

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ² Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor to me, ye shall observe to offer to me in their due season. ³ And thou shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer to LORD: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. ⁴ The one lamb thou shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shall offer at evening, ⁵ and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. ⁶ It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to LORD. ⁷ And the drink offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. In the holy place thou shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to LORD. ⁸ And the other lamb thou shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, thou shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD. ⁹ And on the sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering of it. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. ¹¹ And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering to LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish, ¹² and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil for each bullock, and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil for the one ram, ¹³ and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to LORD. ¹⁴ And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵ And one he-goat for a sin offering to LORD, it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. ¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is LORD's Passover. ¹⁷ And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸ In the first day shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ¹⁹ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old (they shall be to you without blemish), ²⁰ and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil. Three tenth parts ye shall offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram, ²¹ a tenth part shall thou offer for every lamb of the seven lambs. ²² Also one he-goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ²³ Ye shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. ²⁴ After this manner ye shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. ²⁵ And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ²⁶ Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal offering to LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ²⁷ But ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old, ²⁸ and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, ²⁹ a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs,

³ Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. ⁴ These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, ⁵ the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois. ⁶ And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. ⁷ Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these ye shall not eat: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you, ⁸ and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you. Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch. ⁹ These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales ye may eat. ¹⁰ And whatever does not have fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you. ¹¹ Of all clean birds ye may eat, ¹² but these are those of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, ¹³ and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite according to its kind, ¹⁴ and every raven after its kind, ¹⁵ and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk according to its kind, ¹⁶ the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, ¹⁷ and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, ¹⁸ and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. ¹⁹ And all winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten. ²⁰ Of all clean birds ye may eat. ²¹ Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. Thou shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

¹ Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. ² And thou shall sacrifice the Passover to LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. ³ Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, for thou came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou may remember the day when thou came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. ⁴ And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days. Neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. ⁵ Thou may not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, ⁶ but at the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou came forth out of Egypt. ⁷ And thou shall roast and eat it in the place which LORD thy God shall choose, and thou shall turn in the morning, and go to thy tents. ⁸ Six days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to LORD thy God. Thou shall do no work. ⁹ Thou shall number to thee seven weeks. From the time thou begin to put the sickle to the standing grain thou shall begin to number seven weeks. ¹⁰ And thou shall keep the feast of weeks to LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering from thy hand, which thou shall give, according as LORD thy God blesses thee. ¹¹ And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of thee, in the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, ¹² and thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in Egypt. And thou shall observe and do these statutes. ¹³ Thou shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after thou have gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress. ¹⁴ And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates. ¹⁵ Seven days thou shall keep a feast to LORD thy God in the place which LORD shall choose, because LORD thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shall be altogether joyful. ¹⁶ Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And they shall not appear before LORD empty. ¹⁷ Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee.

⁵ And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

¹⁸ Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou will be missed because thy seat will be empty.

²³ And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

³¹ And to offer all burnt offerings to LORD, on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before LORD.

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

³¹ And if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the sabbath, or on a holy day. And that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

³³ for the showbread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

⁴ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah lord LORD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.

¹⁷ And it shall be the ruler's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

¹ Thus says the lord LORD: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ² And the ruler shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go forth, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. ³ And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

⁵ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

¹¹ Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

²⁷ And he said to them, The sabbath came into being for sake of man, and not man for sake of the sabbath. ²⁸ So then the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.

¹⁹ because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the toilet (making all foods clean)?

³ saying, Thou went in to uncircumcised men, having also eaten with them. ⁴ But when Peter began, he expounded to them in order, saying, ⁵ I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain container descending, as a great sheet being lowered from heaven by four corners, and it came as far as to me, ⁶ having gazed at which, I was examining. And I saw the four footed things of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky. ⁷ And I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, kill and eat. ⁸ But I said, Not so, Lord, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered into my mouth. ⁹ But a voice answered me for a second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane. ¹⁰ And this happened thrice, and all were drawn up again into heaven. ¹¹ And behold, immediately three men stood at the house in which I was, who were sent from Caesarea to me. ¹² And the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man's house. ¹³ And he informed us how he saw the agent in his house, who stood and said to him, Send forth men to Joppa, and summon Simon, the man surnamed Peter, ¹⁴ who will speak sayings to thee, by which thou will be saved, thou and all thy house. ¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning. ¹⁶ And I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed in water, but ye will be immersed in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ If then God gave to them the identical gift as also to us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, but what power was I to hinder God? ¹⁸ And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.

²⁰ but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

² One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables. ³ The man who eats should not disdain the man who does not eat, and the man who does not eat should not criticize the man who eats, for God has received him.

⁵ One man prefers one day above another, another man prefers every day. Let each man be fully persuaded in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day, regards it for the Lord. And he who does not regard the day, for the Lord he does not regard it. And he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he expresses thanks to God. And he who does not eat, for the Lord he does not eat, and expresses thanks to God.

¹⁰ But why do thou criticize thy brother? Or also why do thou disdain thy brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹³ Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is profane by itself, except to him who regards anything to be profane. To that man it is profane. ¹⁵ For if thy brother is distressed because of food, thou no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with thy food that man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let your good be maligned. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance. ²¹ It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.

⁷ Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled. ⁸ But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind. ⁹ But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For if some man sees thee, who has knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died. ¹² And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

²⁸ But if any man says to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it. ²⁹ And I say conscience, not the one of himself, but the one of the other man. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? ³⁰ If I partake with thankfulness, why am I maligned about which I express thanks? ³¹ Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.

¹² For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also joined in hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas went along with their hypocrisy.

¹⁰ Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

³ forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴ Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness, ⁵ for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

¹⁰ only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation.

⁹ Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

¹¹ Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.