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

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But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

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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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And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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13 The blood of goats and bulls(A) and the ashes of a heifer(B) sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit(C) offered himself(D) unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences(E) from acts that lead to death,[a](F) so that we may serve the living God!(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:14 Or from useless rituals

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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because it is consecrated by the word of God(A) and prayer.

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For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

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34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism(A) 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.(B)

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34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

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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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28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

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

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