Acts 11:8

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But I said, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
  • Lev 10:10 : 10 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
  • Lev 11:47 : 47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.
  • Ezra 9:11-12 : 11 'that you commanded through your servants the prophets, saying: "The land you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the practices of its peoples and their detestable acts that have filled it with impurity from one end to the other."' 12 So now, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace or prosperity forever, so that you may be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it to your children as an inheritance forever.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Mark 7:2 : 2 They saw some of His disciples eating bread with unclean, that is, unwashed hands, and they criticized them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 10:11-17
    7 verses
    92%

    11He saw heaven opened, and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

    12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and birds of the air.

    13Then a voice said to him, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

    14But Peter said, 'By no means, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.'

    15Again, the voice came to him a second time, saying, 'What God has made clean, you must not call common.'

    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

    17While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for Simon’s house and stood at the gate.

  • Acts 11:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9The voice spoke from heaven a second time: ‘What God has made clean, you must not call unclean.’

    10This happened three times, and then the whole object was pulled up into heaven.

  • Acts 11:3-7
    5 verses
    84%

    3saying, 'You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.'

    4But Peter began to explain it to them step by step, saying:

    5'I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision: something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.

    6As I looked closely at it, I noticed four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

    7I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

  • Ezek 4:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'

    14Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'

  • Acts 10:26-31
    6 verses
    76%

    26But Peter lifted him up and said, 'Stand up! I myself am also a man.'

    27While talking with him, Peter went inside and found many people gathered.

    28He 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.'

    29That is why I came without objection when I was sent for. Now may I ask why you sent for me?

    30Cornelius replied, 'Four days ago at this very hour, I was fasting and praying in my house at three in the afternoon, and suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me.

    31He said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

  • Rom 14:14
    73%

    14I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

  • Matt 15:11
    72%

    11What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

  • Mark 7:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18And He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not realize that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)

  • Lev 11:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, completely split, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

    8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 11:47
    70%

    47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

  • Acts 11:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.

    13He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send men to Joppa and bring back Simon, who is called Peter.

  • Deut 14:10
    69%

    10But anything in the waters that does not have fins and scales, you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.

  • Acts 10:9
    69%

    9The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray about noon.

  • Mark 7:15
    69%

    15There is nothing outside a person that can defile him by going into him, but the things that come out of him are what defile him.

  • Acts 10:34
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    34Then Peter began to speak: 'Now I truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

  • Rom 14:20
    69%

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

  • Deut 14:8
    69%

    8And the pig, though it has divided hooves, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

  • Deut 26:14
    69%

    14I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, I have not removed any of it while unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God and have done everything you commanded me.

  • Matt 15:20
    69%

    20These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

  • Job 6:7
    68%

    7My soul refuses to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.

  • Acts 10:4
    68%

    4Cornelius gazed at him in fear and asked, 'What is it, Lord?' The angel replied, 'Your prayers and your acts of charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God.'

  • Deut 14:3
    68%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • John 13:9
    68%

    9Simon Peter said to Him, 'Lord, not only my feet but also my hands and my head!'

  • Matt 15:17
    68%

    17Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is expelled into the latrine?

  • Lev 11:34
    68%

    34Any food that could be eaten but has water from such a pot on it will be unclean, and any drink that could be drunk from such a pot will be unclean.

  • Acts 4:8
    68%

    8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,'

  • Acts 10:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Behold, three men are looking for you.'

    20Now rise, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.

  • John 13:6
    67%

    6He came to Simon Peter, who said to Him, 'Lord, are You going to wash my feet?'

  • Gen 7:8
    67%

    8From the clean animals, from the animals that are not clean, from the birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground,