Acts 10:15

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The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

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  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Rev 14:14-17 : 14 Then I looked, and a white cloud appeared, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man! He had a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!” 16 So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
  • Rev 14:20 : 20 Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.
  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
  • Gal 2:12-13 : 12 Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy.
  • Mark 7:19 : 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
  • Acts 11:9 : 9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

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  • Acts 11:3-10
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    3saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

    4But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

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

    6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

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

    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

    10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

  • Acts 10:8-14
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    8and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

    9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

    10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

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

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

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

    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

  • Acts 10:16-20
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    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

    17Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was and approached the gate.

    18They called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, was staying there as a guest.

    19While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him,“Look! Three men are looking for you.

    20But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

  • Acts 10:27-32
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    27Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

    28He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

    29Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

    30Cornelius replied,“Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

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

    32Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

  • Acts 10:3-6
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    3About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him,“Cornelius.”

    4Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied,“What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him,“Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

    5Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

    6This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

  • Deut 14:10
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    10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

  • Acts 10:34
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    34Then Peter started speaking:“I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

  • Acts 11:12-13
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    12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

    13He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

  • Mark 7:18-19
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    18He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

  • Acts 10:22-23
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    22They said,“Cornelius the centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

    23So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests.On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

  • Acts 2:14
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    14Peter’s Address on the Day of Pentecost But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them:“You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.

  • Acts 10:46
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    46for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

  • Rom 14:14
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    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

  • Acts 15:9
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    9and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • Acts 10:44
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    44The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

  • Lev 11:47
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    47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

  • Acts 15:7
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    7After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

  • Matt 15:10-11
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    10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.

    11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

  • Matt 15:20
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    20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

  • Titus 1:15
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    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.