Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
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Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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Acts 15:29
That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Fare you well.
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Romans 14:21
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
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1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Three Good Reasons for Abstaining from Certain Kinds of Food.
... faith judged all things to be pure, did homage to idols in not abstaining from that ...
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, shall we abound ...
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The Pastoral Epistles.
... They were, moreover, extravagant ascetics, like the Essenes, forbidding to
marry and abstaining from meat (1:Tim.4:3, 8; Tit.1:14, 15). ...
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But Neither do the Jews Pride Themselves Upon Abstaining from ...
... which entereth into the mouth that defiles a man," and since "meat does not ... may do
as they please; only observe the different reason for abstaining from things ...
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Of the Apostle's Language Concerning Food.
... to wit, and the Lord's days, being excepted) we offer to God; abstaining from things ...
And if he has "delivered you the keys of the meat-market," permitting the ...
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Whether Abstinence is a virtue?
... kingdom of God is not meat and drink," where a gloss [*Cf. St. Augustine, QQ. Evang.
ii, qu.11] observes that "justice consists neither in abstaining nor in ...
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On the First and Second Commandments of the Church
... have reached their fourteenth birthday are bound to abstain from flesh-meat on days ...
If you think you should be excused from fasting or abstaining, state your ...
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The Likeness of the Son to the Father Being Proved...
... forbidden fruit. The stricter sort of the Manichæans practised a severe asceticism,
abstaining from flesh meat and marriage. They would ...
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We Shall Now Proceed to the Next Statement of Celsus...
... observe that I cannot see how those whom he speaks of as abstaining from certain ...
or is made weak;" [4894] and again, "Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom ...
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Whether Abstinence is a Special virtue?
... Objection 3: Further, as man should be content with moderate meat, so should he
be ... of lust, but also against those of gluttony: since by abstaining a man gains ...
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Of the Mortification of Sensual Love to Meats, &C. ...
... may the more easily do because then others being more eager to their meat will less ...
for so doing he may both seem to avoid singularity in abstaining more than ...
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