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Acts 10:15

PurityGod's will and calling

13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

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

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

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

17 While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
KJV
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
WEB
A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
ASV
And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
DARBY
And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.
BLB
And a voice [came] again to him for the second time: “What God has cleansed, you do not call common.”
ÅB
Og det kom en stemme til ham igjen, for annen gang: Det som Gud har renset, det må ikke du kalle urent.
OTB
Stemmen talte til ham igjen: "Det Gud har renset, skal du ikke kalle urent."
B1930
Og det kom atter en røst, for annen gang, til ham: Det som Gud har renset, det må ikke du gjøre til urent.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 10:25

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

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  • Matthew 15:11

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

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  • Titus 1:15

    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.

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  • Mark 7:19

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

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  • 1 Timothy 4:3–5

    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.

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  • Romans 14:14

    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.

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  • Acts 10:28

    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.

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  • Acts 11:9

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

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