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Acts 11:7-17

7 I heard a voice say to me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'

7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

8 But I said, 'No, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unholy or unclean.'

8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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

9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

10 This happened three times. Then the whole thing was taken back to heaven.

10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

11 Right then three men who were sent to me from Caesarea came to the house where I was staying.

11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.

12 The Spirit told me to go with them without doubting. These six believers here also went with me, and we entered the house of Cornelius.

12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

13 He told us about the angel he saw standing in his house. The angel said to him, 'Send some men to Joppa and invite Simon Peter to come.

13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.

14 By the words he will say to you, you and all your family will be saved.'

14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’

15 When I began my speech, the Holy Spirit came on them just as he came on us at the beginning.

15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.

16 Then I remembered the words of the Lord. He said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized withwater, but you will be baptized withthe Holy Spirit.’

17 Since God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I stop the work of God?"

17 So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”