Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it {are} the issues of life. {with...: Heb. above all keeping}

Unto the pure all things {are} pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving {is} nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon {all} four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they {are} an abomination. {hath...: Heb. doth multiply feet}

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For {it is} a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

{Which stood} only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed {on them} until the time of reformation. {ordinances: or, rites, or, ceremonies}

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and {from} fornication, and {from} things strangled, and {from} blood.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

And the tongue {is} a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. {course: Gr. wheel}

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know {it}: but he could not be hid.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These {are} the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that {are} on the earth.

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they {are} unclean to you.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.