Acts 10:15
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Cross-references
Acts 10:28 applies the vision's 'do not call impure' to people, showing Peter understood the command extends beyond food to Gentiles.
Acts 11:9 repeats the exact same divine command as Peter recounts the vision to the Jerusalem church — a direct quotation.
Acts 15:9 states God purified Gentiles' hearts by faith — this is the outcome of the vision's principle that God makes clean.
Acts 15:20 lists specific prohibitions for Gentiles — applying the vision's freedom while retaining moral boundaries, showing the nuance.
Acts 15:29 repeats the council's prohibitions (idols, blood, strangled meat) — a practical outworking of the clean/unclean principle.
Matthew 15:11 records Jesus' saying that what goes in doesn't defile — the same teaching the vision confirms and expands to all foods.
In 1 Corinthians 10:25, Paul applies the same freedom: eat without question, since God has cleansed all foods.
Galatians 2:12 shows Peter’s later withdrawal from Gentiles, directly contradicting the vision’s command not to call anyone unclean.
1 Timothy 4:3-5 declares foods sanctified by God’s word, directly affirming that nothing created by God is to be rejected.
Titus 1:15 states 'to the pure all things are pure', reinforcing the vision’s teaching that cleanliness is a matter of the heart, not diet.
Hebrews 9:10 describes food and washings as temporary regulations, superseded by the cleansing God now declares.
Leviticus 7:19 forbids eating unclean meat — the very law that God overturns in Peter’s vision.
Romans 14:14 directly affirms that nothing is unclean in itself — the same principle Peter learns in the vision.
Romans 14:20 reiterates that everything is clean, adding pastoral caution — reinforcing the lesson from Peter's vision.