Acts 11:9
But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
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- Acts 15:9 : 9 Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
- Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: 14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
- 1 Tim 4:5 : 5 For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
- Acts 10:15 : 15 And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
- Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:
- Acts 10:34-35 : 34 Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
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11And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,
12In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.
13And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.
14But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
15And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
16And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.
17Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,
- Acts 11:3-86 verses88%
3Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.
4But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them,
5I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:
6And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds.
7And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.
8But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.
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10And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.
11And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.
- Acts 10:27-315 verses78%
27And saying these words, he went in, and saw that a great number of people had come together;
28And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:
29And so I came without question, when I was sent for. What then is your purpose in sending for me?
30And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,
31Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.
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47Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.
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18And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
19Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
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14Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.
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10But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
11All clean birds may be used for food.
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7And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.
8Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.
9These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.
10All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
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19And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.
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14I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
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34Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.
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3He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
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11Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
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7Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
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9Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
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17For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
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12Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.
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36But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.
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9Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
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43You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.
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6Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;
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3No disgusting thing may be your food.
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13And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;
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26Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean.
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40And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.
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25So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.
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19And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food: