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

⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁵ A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

²⁸ He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

³⁴ Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;

³⁵ but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

⁵ For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.