When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

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Leviticus 20:25

You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

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Deuteronomy 14:3-20

"You shall not eat any detestable thing. "These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. read more.
"Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. "Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. "The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses. "These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. "You may eat any clean bird. "But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, and every raven in its kind, and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. "And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. "You may eat any clean bird.

Acts 10:11-15

and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" read more.
But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean." Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

1 Timothy 4:3-5

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

Apostasy » Shall abound in the latter days

Matthew 24:12

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.

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2 Thessalonians 2:3

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the

apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Apostates » Shall abound in the latter days

Matthew 24:12

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.

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2 Thessalonians 2:3

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the

apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Asceticism » Exemplified in celibacy

Matthew 19:10

The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

1 Corinthians 7:8

But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

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1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

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1 Timothy 4:3

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

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Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul

Colossians 2:20-23

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)--in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? read more.
These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

1 Timothy 4:1-4

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. read more.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

1 Timothy 4:8

for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Food » From God

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

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Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Psalm 147:9

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

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1 Timothy 4:3-5

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You have anointed my head with oil;
My cup overflows.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.

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Matthew 6:11

‘Give us this day our daily bread.

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Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;

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Genesis 48:15

He blessed Joseph, and said,
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,

The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

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Psalm 111:5

He has given food to those who fear Him;
He will remember His covenant forever.

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Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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Psalm 103:5

Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

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Genesis 1:29

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

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Psalm 136:25

Who gives food to all flesh,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

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Psalm 145:15

The eyes of all look to You,
And You give them their food in due time.

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Genesis 1:29-30

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

Psalm 104:14-15

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth, And wine which makes man's heart glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And food which sustains man's heart.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,

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Job 36:31

“For by these He judges peoples;
He gives food in abundance.

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Psalm 104:14

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

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Sanctification » What is sanctified

Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and enter His sanctuary which He has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that His burning anger may turn away from you.

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1 Timothy 4:1-5

Thankfulness » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily needs

Romans 14:6-7

He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;

1 Timothy 4:3-4

Thanksgiving » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily wants

Romans 14:6-7

1 Timothy 4:3-4

Truth » Should be believed

1 Timothy 4:3

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

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2 Thessalonians 2:12-13

in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.