It is not the things a person puts in his mouth that make him wrong. {\cf2\super [206]} It is the things a person says with his mouth that make him wrong.”
Acts 10:15 - Easy To Read Version But the voice said to him again, “God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them ‘unholy’!” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 the things a person puts in his mouth that make him wrong. {\cf2\super [206]} It is the things a person says with his mouth that make him wrong.”
Food does not go into a person’s mind. Food goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.” (When Jesus said this, he meant that there is no food that is wrong for people to eat.)
This happened three times. Then the whole thing was taken back up into the sky.
Peter said to the people, “You people understand that it is against our Jewish law for a Jew to associate with or visit any person who is not a Jew. But God has shown me that I should not call any person ‘unholy’ or ‘not clean.’
But the voice from the sky answered again, ‘God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them unholy!’
Instead, we should write a letter to them. We should tell them these things:
Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. {\cf2\super [320]} \par Don’t eat meat from animals that have been\par strangled (choked) or\par any meat that still has the blood in it.\par Don’t do any kind of sexual sin.\par
To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.
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.
Don’t let the eating of food destroy the work of God. All food is right to eat. But it is wrong for a person to eat something that makes another person fall into sin.
Eat any meat that is sold in the meat market. Don’t ask questions \{about the meat\} to see if it is something you think is wrong to eat.
To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.
The grapes were squeezed in the winepress outside the city. Blood flowed out of the winepress. It rose as high as the heads of the horses for a distance of 200 miles.