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Acts 11:8
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Acts 11:8 · Webster Bible
Acts 11:8 in other translations
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
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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 Upon which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered, and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping animals, 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 hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
11 And behold, immediately there were three men already come to the house where I was, sent from Cesarea to me.
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