Acts 10:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.””
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“The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 10:15 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 15:11A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
- Mark 7:19because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
- Acts 10:28He 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 11:9But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
- Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- Romans 14:14I 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 14:20Do 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Galatians 2:12For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
- 1 Timothy 4:3They 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.
- Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Hebrews 9:9It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
- Revelation 14:14And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
- Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
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