8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.


In Context

5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

6 On the which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered, and saw four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

7 And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.

9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.

10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Acts 11:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:8"I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:8And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;