Acts 15:20

New American Bible - revised edition

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him: “Get rid of the foreign gods among you; then purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 9:4

Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.

Exodus 20:23

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

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land?

Ezekiel 4:14

“Oh no, Lord God,” I protested. “Never have I defiled myself nor have I eaten carrion flesh or flesh torn by wild beasts, nor from my youth till now has any unclean meat entered my mouth.”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel was resolved not to defile himself with the king’s food or wine; so he begged the chief chamberlain to spare him this defilement.

Leviticus 18:6

None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.

Leviticus 3:17

This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Numbers 25:2

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

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who have come to believe, we sent them our decision that they abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

1 Corinthians 6:18

Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites

1 Corinthians 7:2

but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now in regard to meat sacrificed to idols: we realize that “all of us have knowledge”; knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Ephesians 5:3

Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates 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 young goat in its mother’s milk. Tithes.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only, you must not eat of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from immorality,

Hebrews 12:16

that no one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.

Revelation 10:2

In his hand he held a small scroll that had been opened. He placed 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 and said, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I hold this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, who teaches and misleads my servants to play the harlot and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20

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

1 Samuel 14:32

So the army pounced upon the plunder and took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtering them on the ground and eating the meat with the blood in it.

1 Samuel 14:33

Informed that the army was sinning against the Lord by eating the meat with blood in it, Saul said: “You have broken faith. Roll a large stone here for me.”