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Acts 10:25-31 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

25. When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.

26. But Peter helped him up and said, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

27. While talking with him, he went on in and found that many had come together there.

28. Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

29. That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me? ”

30. Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

31. and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God’s sight.

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