Acts 11:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ But I said, ‘O no, Lord, for I have never even tasted anything ordinary or [ceremonially] unfit [for Jews to eat].’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But I said, No, by no means, Lord; for nothing common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean has ever entered my mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

Common English Bible

⁸ I responded, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But I said: 'Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

Acts 11:8 Cross References

Mark 7:2

They had observed some of His disciples eating their food with contaminated, that is, [ceremonially] unwashed hands.

Acts 11:7

I also heard a voice telling me to get up and kill and eat [one of them].

Acts 11:9

Then the voice spoke from the sky again, saying, ‘Do not consider something [to be] ordinary that God has made acceptable.’

Romans 14:14

As one who is in [fellowship with] the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that nothing in itself is [ceremonially] unclean. But to the person who considers something [ceremonially] unclean, it then becomes unclean to him.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is set apart [i.e., as an acceptable mate, although not yet saved. See verse 16], through his wife [i.e., her Christian commitment is viewed as having a godly effect on the home], and the unbelieving wife is set apart through the brother [i.e., for the same reason]. Otherwise, your children would be [considered] unclean. [Note: “Unclean” suggests they would be viewed as pagans were it not for one parent being a Christian]. But, as it is, they are set apart as acceptable [i.e., to God, because of the influence of the one Christian parent].