Devine Scripture

Acts 11:8

Acts chapter 11 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.

v.8This passage

v.9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 10:10

    and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • Mark 7:2

    and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:14

    For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • Hosea 9:3

    They shall not dwell in Jehovah’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • Ezra 9:11

    which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:

  • Romans 14:14

    I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.