Acts 10:15

International Standard Version

Again a voice came to him a second time, "You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean."Matthew 15:11; Acts 15:28; Romans 14:14,17, 20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:15;">[xr]

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Again, a second time, the voice said to him, “What God has made clean, do not call impure.”

King James Version (1611)
And the voice spake vnto him againe the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

King James Version
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

English Standard Version
And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."

New American Standard Bible
Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

New Century Version
But the voice said to him again, "God has made these things clean, so don't call them ‘unholy'!"

Amplified Bible
And the voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy)."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

Legacy Standard Bible
Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled."

Berean Standard Bible
The voice spoke to him a second time: "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

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

Complete Jewish Bible
The voice spoke to him a second time: "Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean."

Darby Translation
And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the voice said to him again, "God has made these things pure. Don't say they are unfit to eat."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

George Lamsa Translation
And again the voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed, you should not call unclean.

Good News Translation
The voice spoke to him again, "Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean."

Lexham English Bible
And the voice came again to him for the second time: "The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!"

Literal Translation
And again a voice came to him a second time , What things God made clean, you do not make common.

American Standard Version
And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Bible in Basic English
And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

Hebrew Names Version
A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not make unholy."

Etheridge Translation
And again the second time was to him, Those (things) which Aloha cleanseth make not thou profane. [fn]

Murdock Translation
And again the second time, there was a voice to him: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the voyce spake vnto hym againe the seconde tyme: What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

English Revised Version
And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

World English Bible
A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not make unholy."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the voice came to him again, the second time, What God hath purified, call not thou common.

Weymouth's New Testament
Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And eft the secounde tyme the vois was maad to him, That thing that God hath clensid, seye thou not vnclene.

Update Bible Version
And a voice [came] to him again the second time, What God has cleansed, don't make common.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the voice [spoke] to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.

New English Translation
The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"

New King James Version
And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

New Living Translation
But the voice spoke again: "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean."

New Life Bible
The voice said the second time, "What God has made clean you must not say is unclean."

New Revised Standard
The voice said to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not call profane."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And a voice came again, a second time, unto him - What things, God, hath cleansed, be not, thou, making common.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Revised Standard Version
And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the voyce spake vnto him agayne the seconde tyme: what God hath clensed that make thou not comen.

Young's Literal Translation
and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the voyce spake vnto him agayne ye secode tyme: What God hath clensed, yt make not thou vncleane.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean.

THE MESSAGE
The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."

Simplified Cowboy Version
But the voice was adamant and said, "It ain't your job to declare something clean or not. If God says to eat it, then it is clean and you can eat it."

Contextual Overview

⁹ Around noonAbout the sixth hour">[fn] the next day, while they were on their way and coming close to the town, Peter went up on the roof to pray.Acts 11:5;">[xr] ¹⁰ He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the foodit">[fn] was being prepared, he fell into a trance ¹¹ and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.Acts 7:56; Revelation 19:11;">[xr] ¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and birds of the air. ¹³ Then a voice told him,came to him">[fn] "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it." ¹⁴ But Peter said, "Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!"Leviticus 11:4; 20:25; Deuteronomy 14:3,7; Ezekiel 4:14;">[xr] ¹⁵ Again a voice came to him a second time, "You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean."Matthew 15:11; Acts 15:28; Romans 14:14,17, 20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:15;">[xr] ¹⁶ This happened three times. Then the sheetthe vessel">[fn] was quickly taken into heaven. ¹⁷ While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate. ¹⁸ They called out and asked if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Acts 10:28, Acts 11:9, Acts 15:9, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, Matthew 15:11, Revelation 14:14-17, Revelation 14:20, 1 Corinthians 10:25, Galatians 2:12, Galatians 2:13, 1 Timothy 4:3-5, Titus 1:15, Hebrews 9:9, Hebrews 9:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:19 - General Joshua 22:19 - unclean Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Mark 7:2 - defiled Luke 11:41 - all Romans 14:14 - unclean Romans 14:20 - All

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the voice spake unto him again the second time,.... The following words,

what God hath cleansed; that is, hath pronounced clean and lawful to be used, as he now had all sorts of food, Matthew 15:11.

[that] call not thou common; or pronounce it to be unholy or unclean, and unlawful to be used: and the same holds good of men, as well as things; for as hereby the Lord instructed Peter, that there was nothing of itself common, or unclean, and unfit for use; so that no man, not any Gentile, Barbarian, Scythian, or be he who he would, was common or unclean, and his company to be avoided as such. Distinctions both of men and meats were now to be laid aside; and the Jews themselves own, that what is now unclean, will be clean in the time to come, or the times of the Messiah; they say f,

"every beast which is unclean in this world, the holy blessed God מטהר אותה, cleanses it, in the time to come, (the times of the Messiah,) as they were at first clean to the sons of Noah Genesis 9:3, wherefore, as the herb was clean to all, and as the beasts were clean to the sons of Noah; so also in the time to come he will loose what he has bound, or forbidden.''

And particularly they observe, that a swine is call הזיר from הזר, "to return", because the Lord will return it unto Israel. g

f R. Moses Haddarsan in Galatin. l. 11. c. 12. & Bereshit Rabba in Pugio Fidei, c. 12. sect. 1. g Abarbinel Rosh Amana, c. 12. fol. 18. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What God hath cleansed - What God has pronounced or declared pure. If God has commanded you to do a thing, it is not impure or wrong. Perhaps Peter would suppose that the design of this vision was to instruct him that the distinction between clean and unclean food, as recognized by the Jews, was about to be abolished, Acts 10:17. But the result showed that it had a higher and more important design. It was to show him that they who had been esteemed by the Jews as unclean or profane - the entire Gentile world - might now be admitted to similar privileges with the Jews. That barrier was robe broken down, and the whole world was to be admitted to the same fellowship and privileges in the gospel. See Ephesians 2:14; Galatians 3:28. It was also true that the ceremonial laws of the Jews in regard to clean and unclean beasts was to pass away, though this was not directly taught in this vision. But when once the barrier was removed that separated the Jews and Gentiles, all the laws which were founded on such a distinction, and which were framed to keep up such a distinction, passed away of course. The ceremonial laws of the Jews were designed solely to keep up the distinction between them and other nations. When the distinction was abolished; when other nations were to be admitted to the same privileges, the laws which were made to keep up such a difference received their death-blow, and expired of course. For it is a maxim of all law, that when the reason why a law was made ceases to exist, the law becomes obsolete. Yet it was not easy to convince the Jews that their laws ceased to be binding. This point the apostles labored to establish; and from this point arose most of the difficulties between the Jewish and Gentile converts to Christianity. See Acts 15:0; and Rom. 14–15:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:15. What God hath cleansed — God, who made at first the distinction between Jews and Gentiles, has a right to remove it, whenever and by whatever means he pleases: he, therefore, who made the distinction, for wise purposes, between the clean and the unclean, now pronounces all to be clean. He had authority to do the first; he has authority to do the last. God has purposed that the Gentiles shall have the Gospel preached to them: what he therefore has cleansed, "that call not thou common."