it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”
Acts 10:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the voice came to him again a second time, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallowed or unclean. American Standard Version (1901) And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. Common English Bible The voice spoke a second time, “Never consider unclean what God has made pure.” Catholic Public Domain Version And the voice, again a second time to him: "What God has purified, you shall not call common." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common. |
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”
since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven.
and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is improper for a Jew to associate with or to visit an outsider, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.
But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’
but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat;
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,
To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for a distance of about one thousand six hundred stadia.