Acts 10:15

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Summary

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 unto them, 'Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.

and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

And I saw, and lo, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sitting like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle;

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

General references

'And the flesh which cometh against any unclean thing is not eaten; with fire it is burnt; as to the flesh, every clean one doth eat of the flesh;