Acts 15:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But we should send word to them in writing to abstain from and avoid anything that has been polluted by being offered to idols, and all sexual impurity, and [eating meat of animals] that have been strangled, and [tasting of] blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Instead, we should write a letter, telling them to avoid the pollution associated with idols, sexual immorality, eating meat from strangled animals, and consuming blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ 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.

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Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes;

Genesis 9:4

Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.

Leviticus 18:6

“None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Numbers 25:2

These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Acts 21:25

But as for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler. Do not even eat with such a one.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you and that I may have to mourn over many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery that they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.

Deuteronomy 12:16

The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 10:2

He held a little scroll open in his hand. Setting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 10:8

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

1 Samuel 14:32

so the troops flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground, and the troops ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then it was reported to Saul, “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone before me here.”