Romans 14:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.

Cross References

Mark 7:2

And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them.

Acts 10:28

And he said to them: "You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.

Romans 14:2

For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.

Romans 14:20

Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating.

Romans 14:23

But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if anyone sees someone with knowledge sitting down to eat in idolatry, will not his own conscience, being infirm, be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:7

But knowledge is not in everyone. For some persons, even now, with consent to an idol, eat what has been sacrificed to an idol. And their conscience, being infirm, becomes polluted.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;

Titus 1:15

All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.