Acts 10:15
The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
14“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
16This happened three times, and again the sheet was taken back up into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated, thus purifying all foods.”
Acts 11:9But the voice spoke to me from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
1 Timothy 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving 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 →