Acts 11:8

Good News Translation

But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! No ritually unclean or defiled food has ever entered my mouth.’

Cross References

Hosea 9:3

The people of Israel will not remain in the Lord's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat forbidden food in Assyria.

Leviticus 10:10

You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.

Leviticus 11:47

You must be careful to distinguish between what is ritually clean and unclean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.

Mark 7:2

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean—that is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should. (

Acts 11:7

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

Acts 11:9

The voice spoke again from heaven, ‘Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean.’

Romans 14:14

My union with the Lord Jesus makes me certain that no food is of itself ritually unclean; but if you believe that some food is unclean, then it becomes unclean for you.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.