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Inspired scripture has both the Greek "KOINOS" (impure or made common) and ARKARTHATOS (unclean) in verse 14. There is a distinction between the two or God would not have had them both included in the same sentence.

Exactly. Throughout the "New Testament" English translations appear to be PURPOSEFULLY deceitful with regard to the translation of akartathatos and koinos. When koinos is used in the "New Testament" it is used to identify very specific rules that were in use in the First Century - and it is used in order to differentiate between the biblical instructions regarding food (akartathatos), and the man-made rules of the day (koinos). In this case, koinos was the very thing that prohibited pious Jews from associating with Gentiles. Koinos was about a man-made rule. Sadly, it appears the translators must know this (the Septuagint does not use koinos at all), but the translators continue to obfuscate the clear teaching of these passages for fear of causing "theological confusion" - just like must have happened in Houston the other day. I laughed when I thought of people leaving church that day, "I thought we didn't have to obey all those commandments. Yikes, there is more to living rightly than not being an adulterer, thief, murderer, liar, idolator, or homosexual?"

And then we have "experts" on this thread who have the audacity to say that we really only need to worry about the "Ten Word" [aka the Ten Commandments] - all the while ignoring the fact that Reformation Theology obscures the clear teaching of:

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the L-RD your G-d. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the L-RD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the L-RD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11