Bible Strands
Acts 10:15
The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A voice from heaven addresses Peter a second time during the vision of the sheet, immediately after Peter's refusal in verse 14.
The words — πάλιν (palin), "again," marks the repetition that builds to the threefold command in verse 16.
The thread — Matthew 15:11 relocates defilement from what enters the mouth to what comes out; 1 Corinthians 10:25 applies the principle to food without raising conscience; Titus 1:15 generalizes it to the moral state of the person.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to identify what they have declared "unclean" on their own authority and to test that verdict against God's.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Cross-references
- 1 Corinthians 10:25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Matthew 15:11 A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Mark 7:19 because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
- Romans 14:14 I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- 1 Timothy 4:3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Acts 11:9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
- Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.