To the pure,
all things are pure. But to those who are corrupted and do not believe nothing
is pure
Tit 1:15
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to
those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact,
both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
Psalm 18:26
25 To the faithful you show
yourself faithful,
to the
blameless you show yourself blameless,
26 to the
pure you
show yourself pure,
but to
the devious you show yourself shrewd.
Mt 15:10,11
10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen
and understand. 11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what
comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
Mk 7:14-19
14 Again
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen
to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a
person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a
person that defiles them.” [16] [f]
17 After
he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about
this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he
asked. “Don’t
you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go
into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In
saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He
went on: “What
comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from
within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality,
theft, murder,22 adultery,
greed, malice,
deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come
from inside and defile a person.”
Acts
10:9-16, 28
9 About
noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city,
Peter went up on the roof to
pray. 10 He became hungry and
wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a
trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and
something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all
kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told
him, “Get
up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely
not, Lord!” Peter
replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The
voice spoke to him a second time, “Do
not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This
happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our
law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But
God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.
Col 2:20-22
20 Since you died with Christ to the
elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as
though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all
destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
We learn the
following from the above verses
1) To the pure, all things are pure. But
to those who are corrupted and do not believe nothing is pure
2) God shows Himself as pure to the pure
3) Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen
and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what
comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
4) Again
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing
outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes
out of a person that defiles them.”
5) Since you died with Christ to the
elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as
though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?
