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Acts 11:8

Jesus
Purity

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.’

‘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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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
KJV
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
WEB
But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
ASV
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
DARBY
And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.
BLB
But I said, ‘In no way, Lord, for never has a common or unclean [thing] entered into my mouth.’
ÅB
Men jeg sa: Ingenlunde, Herre! aldri er noe vanhellig eller urent kommet i min munn.
OTB
Men jeg sa: ‘Slett ikke, Herre! Ingenting urent eller vanhellig har noen gang kommet inn i min munn.’
B1930
Men jeg sa: Ingenlunde, Herre! aldri er noget vanhellig eller urent kommet i min munn.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Romans 14:14

    I 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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:14

    For 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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  • Hosea 9:3

    They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

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  • Leviticus 10:10

    You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

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  • Leviticus 11:47

    You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

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  • Mark 7:2

    and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.

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  • Ezra 9:11–12

    that 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.

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