Verse 9

The voice spoke from heaven a second time: ‘What God has made clean, you must not call unclean.’

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  • Acts 15:9 : 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so their bodies are outwardly clean, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God?
  • 1 Tim 4:5 : 5 It is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 Again, the voice came to him a second time, saying, 'What God has made clean, you must not call common.'
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them, 'You know it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.'
  • Acts 10:34-35 : 34 Then Peter began to speak: 'Now I truly understand that God does not show favoritism, 35 but in every nation, the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.