Hebrews 13:9

Believers should not be swept away by strange teachings, for the heart is strengthened by grace, not by rules about food. Stability comes from grace, not external regulations.

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• Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• Rom 14:6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Rom 16:17–18Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• Gal 1:6–9I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• Matt 24:4Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
• 1 Tim 6:20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;
• Col 2:7–8rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Heb 9:9–10which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
• 2 Cor 11:11–15Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
• 1 Cor 8:8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
• Rom 14:17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Col 2:4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
• Col 2:16–20Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
• Titus 1:14–15not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
• Matt 24:24For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• 2 Cor 1:21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
• 1 Tim 4:1–5But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
• 1 Cor 6:13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• 2 Th 2:2not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
• Lev 11:1–47Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
• Acts 10:14–16But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
• Rom 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
• 2 Tim 2:1–2You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 6:1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
• Deut 14:3–21You shall not eat any abominable thing.

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