New International Reader's Version

Acts 11:7-11 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

7. Then I heard a voice speaking to me. 'Get up, Peter,' the voice said. 'Kill and eat.'

8. "I replied, 'No, Lord! I will not! Nothing that is not pure and "clean" has ever entered my mouth.'

9. "A second time the voice spoke from heaven. 'Do not say anything is not pure that God has made "clean," ' the voice said.

10. This happened three times. Then the sheet was pulled up into heaven.

11. "Just then three men stopped at the house where I was staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.