Acts 15:20

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Instead, we should write a letter to them. We should tell them these things:

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his family and to all his servants, “Destroy all those foreign gods made of wood and metal that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.

Genesis 9:4

But I give you one command. You must not eat meat that still has its life (blood) in it.

Exodus 20:23

So you must not make idols using gold or silver to compete with me. You must not make these false gods.

Ezekiel 33:25

“You must tell them that the Lord and Master says these things, ‘You eat meat with the blood still in it. You look to your idols {\cf2\super [271]} for help. You murder people. So why should I give you this land?

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I (Ezekiel) said, “Oh, but Lord my Master, I have never eaten any unclean food. I have never eaten meat from an animal that died from a disease or from an animal that was killed by a wild animal. I have never eaten unclean meat—not from the time I was a little baby until today. None of that bad meat ever entered my mouth.”

Daniel 1:8

Daniel did not want to eat the king’s rich food and wine. Daniel did not want to make himself unclean {\cf2\super [4]} with that food and wine. So he asked Ashpenaz for permission not to make himself unclean in this way.

Leviticus 18:6

“You must never have sexual relations with [312] your close relatives! I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

“You must not eat any meat with blood still in it.

Leviticus 3:17

This rule will continue forever through all your generations. Wherever you live, you must never eat fat or blood.”

Acts 15:29

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. {\cf2\super [320]} \par Don’t eat meat from animals that have been\par strangled (choked) or\par any meat that still has the blood in it.\par Don’t do any kind of sexual sin.\par

Acts 21:25

We have already sent a letter to the non-Jewish believers. The letter said:

1 Corinthians 5:11

I am writing to tell you that the person you must not associate with is this: any person that calls himself a brother in Christ but sins sexually, or is greedy, or worships idols, or talks bad to people, or gets drunk, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with a person like that.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes. And God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

So run away from sexual sin. Every other sin that a person does is outside his body. But the person that sins sexually sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But sexual sin is a danger. So each man should have his own wife. And each woman should have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now \{I will write\} about meat that is sacrificed {\cf2\super [46]} to idols. {\cf2\super [47]} We know that “we all have knowledge.” “Knowledge” puffs you up full of pride. But love makes \{you help\} others grow stronger.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come to you again, my God will make me humble before you. I may be saddened by many of you who have sinned. I may be saddened because those people have not changed their hearts to be sorry for their evil lives, for their sexual sins, and for the shameful things they have done.

Galatians 5:19

The wrong things our sinful self does are clear: doing sexual sins, not being pure, doing morally bad things,

Ephesians 5:3

But there must be no sexual sin among you. There must not be any kind of evil or selfishly wanting more and more. Why? Because those things are not right for God’s holy people. {\cf2\super [38]}

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you must not eat the blood. You must pour the blood on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“Don’t eat any animal that has died by itself. You may give the dead animal to the foreigner in your town, and he can eat it. Or you may sell the dead animal to a foreigner. But you yourselves must not eat the dead animal. Why? Because you belong to the Lord your God. You are his special people.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But you must not eat the blood from the animal. You must pour the blood out on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and selfishly wanting more and more. This wanting really means to live serving a false god.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

God wants you to be holy. {\cf2\super [12]} He wants you to stay away from sexual sins.

Hebrews 12:16

Be careful that no person does sexual sin. And be careful that no person is like Esau and never thinks about God. Esau was the oldest son and he would have inherited (received) everything from his father. But Esau sold all that for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all people. And every marriage should be kept pure between only two people. God will judge guilty those people who do sexual sins and adultery. {\cf2\super [172]}

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you wasted too much time doing the things that the non-believers like to do. You were doing sexual sins. You were doing the evil things you wanted. You were becoming drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, having drunken parties, and doing wrong by worshiping idols (false gods).

Revelation 10:2

The angel was holding a small scroll. {\cf2\super [74]} The scroll was open in his hand. The angel put his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

Revelation 10:8

Then I heard the same voice from heaven again. The voice said to me, “Go and take the open scroll {\cf2\super [77]} that is in the angel’s hand. This is the angel that is standing on the sea and on the land.”

Revelation 2:14

“But I have a few things against you: You have people there \{in your group\} who follow the teaching of Balaam. Balaam taught Balak how to make the people of Israel {\cf2\super [17]} sin. Those people sinned by eating food offered to idols {\cf2\super [18]} and by doing sexual sins.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: You let that woman named Jezebel do what she wants. She says that she is a prophet. {\cf2\super [22]} But she is leading my people away with her teaching. Jezebel leads my people to do sexual sins and to eat food that is offered to idols. {\cf2\super [23]}

Revelation 9:20

The other people \{on the earth\} were not killed by these bad things. But these people still did not change their hearts and lives and turn away from the things they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons {\cf2\super [72]} and idols {\cf2\super [73]} made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.

1 Samuel 14:32

They had taken sheep, cows, and calves from the Philistines. Now the people of Israel were so hungry they killed the animals on the ground and ate them. And the blood was still in the animals!

1 Samuel 14:33

A person said to Saul, “Look! The men are sinning against the Lord. They’re eating meat that still has blood in it!”