Acts 11:8

Easy To Read Version

But I said, ‘I would never do that, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unholy or not pure.’

Cross References

Hosea 9:3

The Israelites will not stay in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt. In Assyria they will eat food that they should not eat.

Leviticus 10:10

You must make a clear distinction (difference) between things that are holy and things that are not holy. You must make a clear distinction between things that are clean [118] and things that are unclean. [119]

Leviticus 11:47

Those teachings are so people can know unclean [145] animals from clean [146] animals. So people will know which animals they can eat and which animals they must not eat.

Mark 7:2

The Pharisees and teachers of the law saw that some of Jesus’ followers ate food with hands that were not clean. (“Not clean” means that they did not wash their hands \{in the way the Pharisees said people must\}.)

Acts 11:7

I heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill any of these animals and eat it!’

Acts 11:9

But the voice from the sky answered again, ‘God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them unholy!’

Romans 14:14

I am in the Lord Jesus. And I know that there is no food that is wrong to eat. But if a person believes that something is wrong, then that thing is wrong for him.

1 Corinthians 7:14

The husband who is not a believer is made holy through his \{believing\} wife. And the wife who is not a believer is made holy through her \{believing\} husband. If this were not true, then your children would not be clean. But now your children are holy.