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


In Context

5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.

6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

7 Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'

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

9 "The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'

10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

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 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;

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.