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Titus 1:15 and Romans 14:14 read as perception by self-concept: nothing is unclean in itself; one sees things clean or unclean through one's concept of self, and one who has established within that he is lovely cannot see the unlovely. Jesus, identified with the lovely, saw nothing unclean in the woman taken in adultery ('neither do I condemn thee'). The contemplation: to be of too pure eyes to behold iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13).
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Titus 1:15 | To the pure all things are pure
Titus 1:15 | Unto the pure all things are pure
Romans 14:14 | There is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean
Habakkuk 1:13 | of too pure eyes to behold iniquity
John 8:11 | neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more
Own wordings
There is nothing in itself unclean, but you, by your concept of self, see things either clean or unclean
Jesus was so completely identified with the lovely that He was incapable of seeing the unlovely
You are incapable of seeing anything that is unlovely when you establish within your own mind’s eye the fact that you are lovely
Had I a noble, dignified concept of myself, I never could have seen the unlovely in others