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Acts 11:8

American Standard Version

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

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Acts 11:8 in other translations

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

Acts 11:8 · World English Bible

Acts 11:8 in context

  1. 6upon which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw the fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and birds of the heaven.
  2. 7And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
  3. 8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
  4. 9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
  5. 10And this was done thrice: and all were drawn up again into heaven.