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Acts 11:8
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‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
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But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
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But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
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But I said, ‘In no way, Lord, for never has a common or unclean [thing] entered into my mouth.’
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Acts 11
6 I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
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