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But I said, Nay, Lord; for common thing either unclean [or unclean] entered never into my mouth.
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And the voice answered the second time from heaven, That thing that God hath cleansed, say thou not unclean [Those things that God hath cleansed, thou shalt not say unclean].
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And this was done by thrice, and all things were received again into heaven.
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And lo! three men at once stood in the house, in which I was; and they were sent from Caesarea to me. [And lo! three men anon stood nigh in the house, in which I was, sent from Caesarea to me.]
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And the Spirit said to me, that I should go with them, and doubt nothing [nothing doubting]. Yea, and these six brethren came with me, and we entered into the house of the man.
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And he told to us, how he saw an angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send thou into Joppa [Send into Joppa], and call Simon, that is named Peter,
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which shall speak to thee words, in which thou shalt be safe, and all thine house.
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And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as [and] into us in the beginning.
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And I bethought on the word of the Lord, as he said, For John baptized in water [Soothly John baptized in water], but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Ghost.
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Therefore if God gave to them the same grace, as [and] to us that believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that might forbid the Lord, that he give not the Holy Ghost to them that believed in the name of Jesus Christ [who was I, that might forbid God, that he should not give the Holy Ghost to men believing in the name of Jesus Christ]?
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When these things were heard, they held peace, and glorified God, and said [saying], Therefore also to heathen men God hath given penance to life.