But I said, ‘Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
They will not dwell in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, and between what is clean and what is unclean;
that you may distinguish between the clean and the unclean, and between creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’
But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’
I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it unclean.
For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through the brother. Otherwise your children would be unclean, whereas in fact they are holy.