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.

What

General references

Leviticus 7:19

Bible References

What

And he said to them, Ye understand how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to fraternize or to visit with a foreign man, and yet God demonstrated to me not to call one man profane or unclean.

But a voice answered me for a second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.

And he made not one distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

And I looked, and behold, a white cloud. And sitting upon the cloud, like a son of man, having a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,

For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision.

forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

Truly to the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,

General references

And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every clean man shall eat of it,