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Acts 11:8

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

KJV

εἶπον δέ, μηδαμῶς, κύριε, ὅτι κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον οὐδέποτε εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ στόμα μου.

Greek NT

Dixi autem : Nequaquam Domine : quia commune aut immundum numquam introivit in os meum.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσέρχομαι
eiserchomai
verb · 195×
κοινός
koinos
adjective · 14×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μηδαμῶς
medamos
adverb · 2×
οὐδέποτε
oudepote
adverb · 16×
στόμα
stoma
noun · 78×
ἀκάθαρτος
akathartos
adjective · 31×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
e
particle · 346×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ὅτι | WH/Treg/NIV: ὅτι | RP: + πᾶν
  • ὅτιSBLGNT
  • ὅτιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + πᾶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 7:14 — For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
  • Hos 9:3 — They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Mark 7:15 — There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
  • Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
  • Rom 14:14 — I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
  • Rom 14:14 — I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.