Acts 10:15
And a voice again for a second time, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14But Peter said, Not so, Lord, because I have never eaten anything profane or unclean.
16And this happened thrice, and again the vessel was taken up into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the toilet (making all foods clean)?
Acts 11:9But a voice answered me for a second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.
Acts 15:20but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in Lord Jesus, that nothing is profane by itself, except to him who regards anything to be profane. To that man it is profane.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.
Matthew Henry on Acts 10:10-19
Peter's Vision. 9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of… Read the whole commentary →