Acts 11:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’”
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“‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 11:8 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- Leviticus 11:47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
- Ezra 9:11that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
- Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Mark 7:2and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- 1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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