Acts 10:15 “The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure tha…”

Acts 10:15

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

World English Bible

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

American Standard Version

And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

Darby Translation

And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

Young's Literal Translation

and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: 'What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

Bible in Basic English

And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

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Cross references

“What”

1 Corinthians 10:25 Matthew 15:11 Titus 1:15 1 Timothy 4:3–5 Acts 10:28 Acts 11:9

1 Corinthians 10:25 · BSB

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

Matthew 15:11 · BSB

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Titus 1:15 · BSB

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

1 Timothy 4:3–5 · BSB

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.

Acts 10:28 · BSB

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Acts 11:9 · BSB

But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

Also

Mark 7:19 Romans 14:14 Romans 14:20

Mark 7:19 · BSB

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

Romans 14:14 · BSB

I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

Romans 14:20 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

16This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.

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