Verse 9

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

Referenced Verses

  • 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 sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • 1 Tim 4:5 : 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
  • Acts 10:34-35 : 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism; 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.