Acts 15:20

Modern English Version

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

Cross References

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. 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 or make gods of gold for yourselves.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat meat with the blood in it and lift up your eyes toward your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been defiled, for from my youth up, even until now, I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces, nor has abominable meat come into my mouth.”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s food, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the master of the officials that he might not defile himself.

Leviticus 18:6

None of you shall approach any of his near relatives to have relations: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat anything with the blood in it, nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.

Leviticus 3:17

As a continual statute for your generations in all your settlements, you shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Numbers 25:2

They called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they should observe no such thing, except that they abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

But I have written to you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the belly, and the belly is for food,” but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Escape from sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as concerning food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge produces arrogance, but love edifies.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already, who have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Ephesians 5:3

And do not let sexual immorality, or any impurity, or greed be named among you, as these are not proper among saints.

Deuteronomy 12:16

only you must not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You must not eat of anything that dies of itself, but you may give it to the foreigner that is in your gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you must not eat its blood. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any sexually immoral or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Peter 4:3

For in earlier times of our lives it may have sufficed us to do what the Gentiles like to do, when we walked in immorality: lusts, drunkenness, carousing, debauchery, and abominable idolatries.

Revelation 10:2

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

Revelation 10:8

Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the little scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the earth.”

Revelation 2:14

“But I have a few things against you: You have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the Israelites, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

“But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not cease to worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which cannot see nor hear nor walk.

1 Samuel 14:32

The people rushed upon the spoil; they took sheep, oxen, and calves and slew them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they reported to Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt faithlessly. Roll a great stone to me this day.”