Titus 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure. Their very minds and consciences are corrupted. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted. American Standard Version (1901) To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. Common English Bible Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and without faith. Instead, their mind and conscience are corrupted. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. |
There are those who are pure in their own eyes yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.
Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered, “Yes, it becomes unclean.”
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.
The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for you to make others fall by what you eat;
But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat, because they do not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!