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When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

…because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

They all ate the same spiritual food

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.