But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Treasury of Scripture from pollutions. Acts 15:29 That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication... Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean... Exodus 20:3-5,23 You shall have no other gods before me... Exodus 34:15,16 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods... Numbers 25:2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. Psalm 106:37-39 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils... Ezekiel 20:30,31 Why say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers... 1 Corinthians 8:1,4-13 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies... 1 Corinthians 10:20-22,28 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God... Revelation 2:14,20 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam... Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands... Revelation 10:2,8 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the earth... fornication. 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater... 1 Corinthians 6:9,13,18 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters... 1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn many which have sinned already... Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints; Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence... 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication: Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts... things. Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing... Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood. Leviticus 7:23-27 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat... Leviticus 17:10-14 And whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats any manner of blood... Deuteronomy 12:16,23-25 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water... Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it... Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it on the ground as water. 1 Samuel 14:32 And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground... Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted... Ezekiel 33:25 Why say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood... 1 Timothy 4:4,5 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving...
Context The Council at Jerusalem
5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. 6And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them, Men and brothers, you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8And God, which knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did to us; 9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had worked among the Gentiles by them. 13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brothers, listen to me: 14Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, on whom my name is called, said the Lord, who does all these things. 18Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19Why my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Darby Bible Translation
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
King James Bible
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Young's Literal Translation
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
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