Acts 11:9
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New International Version (©2011)
"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
"But the voice from heaven spoke again: 'Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But a voice answered from heaven a second time, 'What God has made clean, you must not call common.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, 'You must stop calling common what God has made clean!'

NET Bible (©2006)
But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And again a voice said to me from Heaven: 'Whatever God has purified, you shall not make defiled.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"A voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Don't say that the things which God has made clean are impure.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.

American King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.

American Standard Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

English Revised Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Weymouth New Testament
"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

World English Bible
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

Young's Literal Translation
and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:1-18 The imperfect state of human nature strongly appears, when godly persons are displeased even to hear that the word of God has been received, because their own system has not been attended to. And we are too apt to despair of doing good to those who yet, when tried, prove very teachable. It is the bane and damage of the church, to shut out those from it, and from the benefit of the means of grace, who are not in every thing as we are. Peter stated the whole affair. We should at all times bear with the infirmities of our brethren; and instead of taking offence, or answering with warmth, we should explain our motives, and show the nature of our proceedings. That preaching is certainly right, with which the Holy Ghost is given. While men are very zealous for their own regulations, they should take care that they do not withstand God; and those who love the Lord will glorify him, when made sure that he has given repentance to life to any fellow-sinners. Repentance is God's gift; not only his free grace accepts it, but his mighty grace works it in us, grace takes away the heart of stone, and gives us a heart of flesh. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - A voice answered the second time out of for the voice answered me again from, A.V. and T.R.; make for call, A.V.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the voice answered me again from heaven,.... From whence the former voice came, and was the voice of the Lord, or of an angel of the Lord, and which answered him again, or

a second time; not that it said to him a second time kill and eat, but what follows;

what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common; that is, had declared to be clean and fit for use, and did not defile, and could not defile the man into whose mouth it entered, and therefore ought not to be pronounced unclean, and of a defiling nature; this Jesus Christ did, who is God over all blessed for ever, and by whose death an end was put to the ceremonial law, and the distinctions of meats by it; Matthew 15:11.

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Peter Reports to the Church at Jerusalem
…8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth. 9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common. 10And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven. …

Mark 7:19 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 clean.)
Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
Acts 11:8 "I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
Acts 11:10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.