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


In Context

5 I was in the city of Joppe praying, and I saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even unto me.

6 Into which looking, I considered, and saw fourfooted creatures of the earth, and beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air:

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

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

9 And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

10 And this was done three times: and all were taken 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 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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