Acts 10:15 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁵ A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

¹¹ it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

¹⁹ It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).

²⁸ To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

⁹ But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

²⁰ but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

²⁹ abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

¹⁴ I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean.

²⁰ You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;

²⁵ Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.

¹⁵ For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

⁹ (which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect, ¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

¹⁴ Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud One resembling a human being, a golden crown upon his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, shouting aloud to him who sat upon the cloud, "Thrust your sickle in and reap, the time has come to reap, the harvest of earth is ripe and ready." ¹⁶ So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped. ¹⁷ Then another angel came out of the temple, he too with a sharp sickle;

²⁰ outside the City was the winepress trodden, and blood gushed out of the winepress as high as a horse's bridle for the space of two hundred miles.