Acts 11:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ Then the voice spoke from the sky again, saying, ‘Do not consider something [to be] ordinary that God has made acceptable.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding or calling it common or unhallowed or unclean.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Common English Bible

⁹ The voice from heaven spoke a second time, ‘Never consider unclean what God has made pure.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

Acts 11:9 Cross References

Mark 7:19

It is because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and [eventually] passes out into the toilet.” By saying this He made all foods [ceremonially] acceptable.

Acts 10:15

So, the voice spoke again, saying, “What God has made [ceremonially] acceptable, you must not consider ordinary [and therefore defiled].”

Acts 10:28

And he said to them, “You people know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with, or even go near a person from another [i.e., non-Jewish] country, and yet God showed me that I should not consider any person ordinary or [ceremonially] unacceptable.

Acts 11:10

And this was done three times before it was all lifted back up into the sky.

Acts 11:8

But I said, ‘O no, Lord, for I have never even tasted anything ordinary or [ceremonially] unfit [for Jews to eat].’

Acts 15:9

And He did not discriminate between us [i.e., Jews] and them [i.e., Gentiles], cleansing their hearts [also] by faith [in Jesus].

1 Timothy 4:5

for it is consecrated [i.e., made acceptable] by the word of God and prayer.