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Acts 11:9

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9But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made •clean, you must not call common.’

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  1. •When something is clean, it is holy or acceptable to God. When it is unclean, it is unholy (such as an unclean spirit). The term can be used in a ritual sense to apply to moral standards for living.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

“But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, ‘The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!’

KJV 1900King James Version

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