Acts 11:8
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
Cross-References
“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
“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.”
“And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.”
“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.”
“They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.”