American Standard Version
"But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. "
— Acts 11:8, American Standard Version
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
“But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'”
“But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’”
“And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.”
“But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.”
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even unto me:
upon 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.
And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
And this was done thrice: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
And behold, forthwith three men stood before the house in which we were, having been sent from Cæsarea unto me.