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15 The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”(A)

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

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25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,

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25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,(A)

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11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”(A)

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11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,(A) but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”(B)

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15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.(A)

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15 To the pure, all things are pure,(A) but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.(B) In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.(C)

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19 since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

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19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods(A) clean.)(B)

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They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.(A) For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,(B) for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

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They forbid people to marry(A) and order them to abstain from certain foods,(B) which God created(C) to be received with thanksgiving(D) by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good,(E) and nothing is to be rejected(F) if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God(G) and prayer.

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14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.(A)

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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)

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28 and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is improper for a Jew to associate with or to visit an outsider, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.(A)

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28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.(A) But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.(B)

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and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.(A)

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He did not discriminate between us and them,(A) for he purified their hearts by faith.(B)

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

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“The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’(A)

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12 for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.(A) 13 And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

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12 For before certain men came from James,(A) he used to eat with the Gentiles.(B) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.(C) 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas(D) was led astray.

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20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat;

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20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.(A) All food is clean,(B) but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.(C)

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20 but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled[a] and from blood.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15.20 Other ancient authorities lack and from whatever has been strangled

20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,(A) from sexual immorality,(B) from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.(C)

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