14 “No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common[a] and ritually unclean!”(A)

15 Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”(B)

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  1. Acts 10:14 Perhaps profane, or non-sacred; Jews ate distinctive food according to OT law and their traditions, similar to modern kosher or non-kosher foods.

14 “Surely not, Lord!”(A) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”(B)

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”(C)

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35 but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.

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35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.(A)

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And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving[a] the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.(A) He made no distinction between us and them,(B) cleansing their hearts by faith.(C)

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  1. Acts 15:8 Other mss add them

God, who knows the heart,(A) showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them,(B) just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them,(C) for he purified their hearts by faith.(D)

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