Acts 11:9
Good News Translation
The voice spoke again from heaven, 'Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean.'

New Revised Standard Version
But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’

Contemporary English Version
The voice from heaven spoke to me again, "When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat."

New American Bible
But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

What.

Acts 10:28,34,35 And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean. . . .

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Context
Peter's Report at Jerusalem
8And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. 9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common. 10And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.…
Cross References
Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Acts 11:8
And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

Acts 11:10
And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.

Acts 11:8
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