Acts 10:15

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Acts 10:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

14 “No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.

17 While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.

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Acts 10:28

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Acts 11:9

But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Acts 15:20

Instead, 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.

Acts 15:29

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

Matthew 15:11

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Revelation 14:14

And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

Revelation 14:15

Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

Revelation 14:16

So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

Revelation 14:17

Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

Revelation 14:20

And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

Galatians 2:12

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

Galatians 2:13

The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

1 Timothy 4:3

They 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.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

1 Timothy 4:5

because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Hebrews 9:9

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 9:10

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.