Acts 15:29

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it. Don’t be involved in sexual sin. If you stay away from these, you will do well. We say goodbye now.

Cross References

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should send a letter telling them only the things they should not do: Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. This makes the food unclean. Don’t be involved in sexual sin. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it.

Acts 21:25

“In regard to the non-Jewish believers, we have already sent a letter to them saying what we think they should do: ‘Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it. Don’t be involved in sexual sin.’”

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: You let that woman Jezebel do what she wants. She says that she is a prophet, but she is leading my people away with her teaching. Jezebel leads my people to commit sexual sins and to eat food that is offered to idols.

Revelation 2:14

“But I have a few things against you. You have people there who follow the teaching of Balaam. Balaam taught Balak how to make the people of Israel sin. They sinned by eating food offered to idols and by committing sexual sins.

Leviticus 17:14

This is because the life of every kind of animal is in its blood. So I give this command to the Israelites: Don’t eat meat that still has blood in it! Whoever eats blood must be separated from their people.

Jude 1:24

God is strong and can keep you from falling. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and give you great joy.

1 John 5:21

So, dear children, keep yourselves away from false gods.

James 1:27

The worship that God wants is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help and keeping yourself free from the world’s evil influence. This is the kind of worship that God accepts as pure and good.

1 Timothy 5:22

Think carefully before you lay your hands on anyone to make him an elder. Don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, be filled with joy. Try to make everything right, and do what I have asked you to do. Agree with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 11:9

If I needed something when I was with you, I did not trouble any of you. The brothers who came from Macedonia gave me all that I needed. I did not allow myself to be a burden to you in any way. And I will never be a burden to you.

Acts 18:21

He left them and said, “I will come back to you again if God wants me to.” And so he sailed away from Ephesus.

Luke 9:61

Another man said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me go and say goodbye to my family.”

Acts 23:30

I was told that some of the Jews were making a plan to kill him. So I decided to send him to you. I also told those Jews to tell you what they have against him.

Genesis 9:4

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

Deuteronomy 12:16

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