Acts 11:9
But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’
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- Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
- 1 Tim 4:5 : 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
- Acts 10:15 : 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
- 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 10:34-35 : 34 Then Peter started speaking:“I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people, 35 but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.
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11 He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.
12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.
13 Then a voice said to him,“Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”
14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.
17 Now 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.
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3 saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”
4 But 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.
6 As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.
7 I also heard a voice saying to me,‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’
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10 This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.
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27 Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.
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.
29 Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”
30 Cornelius 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
31 and said,‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.
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10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
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7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided(the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.
8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9 Clean and Unclean Water Creatures“‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.
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11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
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7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
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9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
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36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
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9 About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
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43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
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6 the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.
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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
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40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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25 Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.
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19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.