Acts 15:20

Tree of Life Version

but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Cleanse yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 9:4

Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!

Exodus 20:23

Do not make gods of silver alongside Me, and do not make gods of gold for yourselves.

Ezekiel 33:25

“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah, Adonai Elohim ! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up until now have I not eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts. Tainted meat has never come into my mouth.”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the king’s delicacies or with the wine he was drinking, so he entreated the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

Leviticus 18:6

“None of you is to come near anyone who is his close relatives to uncover their nakedness. I am Adonai.

Leviticus 19:26

“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.

Leviticus 3:17

“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”

Numbers 25:2

Then they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, so the people were eating, and bowing down before their gods.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. By keeping away from these things, you will do well. Shalom!”

Acts 21:25

“As for Gentiles who have believed, however, we have written by letter what we decided—for them to abstain from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from immorality.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I am writing to you not to mix together with anyone who is being called a brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater or a slanderer or a drunkard or a swindler—not even to eat with such a fellow.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body—but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, those who practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of much immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning idol sacrifices, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I will mourn for many of those who have sinned before and not repented of the impurity and sexual immorality and indecency which they committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the deeds of the flesh are clear: sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed—don’t even let these be mentioned among you, as is proper for kedoshim.

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You are not to eat anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the outsider within your gates so that he may eat it or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to Adonai your God. You are not to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only its blood you are not to eat—you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what is earthly in you—sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed—for that is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God—your sanctification: to abstain from sexual immorality;

Hebrews 12:16

Also see to it that there is no immoral or godless person—like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to carry out the desire of the pagans—living in indecency, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, wild parties, and lawless idolatries.

Revelation 10:2

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

Revelation 10:8

Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel 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 was teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before Bnei-Yisrael, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

“But this I have against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess—yet she is teaching and deceiving My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20

But the rest of mankind, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent and turn away from the works of their hands—they would not stop worshiping demons and the idols of gold and silver and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

1 Samuel 14:32

Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered 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 Adonai by eating with the blood.” “You have acted faithlessly,” he said. “Roll a great stone towards me at once.”