Acts 11:9

Mace New Testament

but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
"But then the voice said, 'It ain't your job to declare something clean or not. If God says to eat it, then it is clean and you can eat it.'

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

Legacy Standard Bible
But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled.'

Bible in Basic English
But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

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

New King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, "What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

Christian Standard Bible®
But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.'

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the voice from heaven answered me again, What God hath purified, call not thou common.

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

King James Version (1611)
But the voyce answered me againe from heauen, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Literal Translation
But a voice answered me the second time out of the heaven, What God has cleansed, you do not make common.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles the voyce answered me agayne from heauen: What God hath clensed, that call not thou vncleane.

Amplified Bible
"But the voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy).'

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

Revised Standard Version
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But the voyce answered me agayne from heven cout not thou those thinges come which god hath clensed.

Update Bible Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, don't make common.

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

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.

New Century Version
But the voice from heaven spoke again, ‘God has made these things clean, so don't call them unholy.'

New English Translation
But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

Berean Standard Bible
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'

Contemporary English Version
The voice from heaven spoke to me again, "When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat."

Complete Jewish Bible
But the voice spoke again from heaven: ‘Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.'

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the voyce answered me the seconde time from heauen, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

George Lamsa Translation
But again the voice from heaven said to me, What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.

Hebrew Names Version
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'

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

Etheridge Translation
And again the voice said to me from heaven, What Aloha hath cleansed make not thou to be polluted.

Murdock Translation
And again, a voice from heaven said to me: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.

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

New Life Bible
The voice from heaven said the second time, ‘What God has made clean you must not say is unclean.'

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

New Revised Standard
But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And a voice answered, a second time, out of heaven - What things, God, hath cleansed, be not, thou, making common.

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

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

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!'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the voyce aunswered me agayne from heaue: Make them not comon which God hath cleansed.

Easy-to-Read Version
"But the voice from heaven answered again, ‘God has made these things pure. Don't say they are unfit to eat!'

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

Good News Translation
The voice spoke again from heaven, ‘Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the vois answeride the secounde tyme fro heuene, That thing that God hath clensid, seie thou not vnclene.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the mean time, the apostles, and the brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles had likewise receiv'd the word of God. ² and when Peter was return'd to Jerusalem, the Jewish converts objected to his conduct, ³ and ask'd him, why did you go to eat with the uncircumcised? ⁴ but Peter represented the whole affair to them, ⁵ saying, as I was at prayers in Joppa, I saw something like a great sheet, tied at the four corners, which descended from heaven, and came just to me. ⁶ as I was considering it very attentively, I saw several quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. ⁷ then I heard a voice, which said, rise, Peter; kill and eat. ⁸ but I said, Lord, by no means: for I never did eat any thing impure, and defiled. ⁹ but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified. ¹⁰ this was done three times, and then the whole scene was mounted to heaven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Acts 10:28, Acts 10:34, Acts 10:35, Acts 15:9, 1 Timothy 4:5, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:19 - unclean Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Matthew 15:11 - that which goeth Acts 7:5 - yet Acts 10:15 - What Romans 14:14 - unclean

Cross-References

Acts 17:26
he he has deduced all mankind from one parent, to inhabit the surface of the whole earth, having pre-establish'd the appointed periods, and the boundarys of their dominions:

1 Corinthians 14:23
when therefore the whole church is assembled, and all speak different languages, if such as are either unlearned, or are unbelievers should come in, will they not say you are all mad?

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Acts 10:9-33.