Acts 11:8

"`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7I also heard a voice saying to me, "`Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

9"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

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Cross References

Romans 14:14As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

Matthew Henry on Acts 11:2-19

Peter's Vindication. 1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great… Read the whole commentary →

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