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Clean and Unclean Scripture Studies
Study passages commonly used in food and purity arguments alongside the explanation and witnesses preserved in Words in Context.
Focused passage studies
- Romans 14: Days, Food, Conscience, and Immediate Context
Study Romans 14:1-6 and 13-23 without turning disputable eating, common food, or personal esteem into a reversal of Sabbath and clean-food Scripture. - Acts 10: Peter's Vision and Clean or Unclean Food
Read Acts 10:9-16, 28, and 34-35 with Peter's own interpretation that he should call no man common or unclean. - Mark 7: “Purging All Meats” in Textual and Immediate Context
Read Mark 7:1-23 from the handwashing dispute through YAHUSHA's teaching about human tradition and defilement from the heart. - 1 Timothy 4:1-5: Foods Created to Be Received
Read 1 Timothy 4:1-5 and test the difference between forbidding Scripture-defined foods and redefining every creature as food.
Words in Context
- Matthew 15:11 — Heart Defilement Does Not Redefine Food
- Matthew 15:17-20 — Defilement From the Heart Is Not a Food-Law Reversal
- Mark 7:15 — Nothing Entering Does Not Mean Every Creature Is Food
- Mark 7:18-19 — Mark Seven Must Not Be Used Against Torah
- Mark 12:29-31 — The Greatest Commandments Summarize, Not Replace
- Acts 10:9-16 — Peter's Vision Was About Men, Not Unclean Meat
- Acts 10:15 — What YAHUAH Cleansed Must Match Peter's Explanation
- Acts 10:28 — Peter Interprets the Vision as About People
- Acts 11:9 — Common and Unclean Must Follow the Vision's Meaning
- Romans 5:20 — The Law Exposes Sin So Grace Can Rescue
- Romans 7:4 — Dead to the Law Does Not Mean Alive to Lawlessness
- Romans 8:2 — The Spirit Frees From Sin and Death
- Romans 14:2 — Romans 14 Is Not Permission to Eat the Unclean
- Romans 14:3 — Disputable Eating Is Not a Clean/Unclean Reversal
- Romans 14:5 — Romans 14 Is Not a Sabbath Abolition Text
- Romans 14:6 — Esteeming a Day Does Not Replace YAHUAH's Appointed Time
- Romans 14:14 — Common Is Not the Same as Biblically Unclean
- Romans 14:17 — Kingdom Priorities Do Not Erase Food Boundaries
- Romans 14:20 — All Things Pure Must Stay Within Scripture's Definitions
- 1 Corinthians 6:12 — All Things Lawful Is Not Lawlessness
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 — Idol-Meat Questions Do Not Redefine Clean Food
- 1 Corinthians 10:23 — Lawful Does Not Mean Edifying or Clean
- 1 Corinthians 10:25 — Market Meat Instruction Is Not a Swine-Cleansing Text
- 2 Corinthians 3:6 — The Letter Kills When the Heart Is Unrenewed
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