Acts 11:9

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Acts 11:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’

8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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

10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

11 Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.

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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 10:34

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

Acts 10:35

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

Acts 15:9

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

1 Timothy 4:5

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

Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!