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Acts 11:8
and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;
Acts 11:8 · Young's Literal Translation
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 I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;
6 at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;
7 and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
8 and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;
9 and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou--declare not thou common.
10 `And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,
11 and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea unto me,
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