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Acts 11:8

World English Bible

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

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Acts 11:8 in other translations

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

Acts 11:8 · American Standard Version

Acts 11:8 in context

  1. 6When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
  2. 7I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
  3. 8But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
  4. 9But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
  5. 10This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.