9But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'


In Context

6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.

7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'

8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

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

10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

Acts 11:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:9"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:9And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:9and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou — declare not thou common.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.