Romans 14:14

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

Cross References

Mark 7:2

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with their hands 'defiled,' by which they meant unwashed.

Acts 10:28

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

Romans 14:2

One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

Romans 14:20

Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.

Romans 14:23

He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:7

Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

1 Timothy 4:4

Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

Titus 1:15

Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.