Acts 10:15

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Acts 10:15

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

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and he said to him, "You know that it is against the law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one, but God has taught me not to call any man vulgar or ceremonially unclean;

Then the voice from heaven answered again, 'The things that God has cleansed you must not call unclean.'

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul."

Then I looked, and there was a bright cloud with one seated on it like the Son of man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

As a rule eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it for conscience' sake,

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

for it is merely a symbol of the present time in connection with which gifts and sacrifices are repeatedly offered though they cannot make the conscience of the worshiper perfect,