that is to say, that ye abstain from things offered unto images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.
As touching the gentiles which believe we have written and concluded, that they observe no such things: but that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from strangled, and from fornication.
For I know, and surely believe in the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing common of itself: but unto him that judgeth it to be common, to him it is common.
He that observeth one day more than another, doth it for the Lord's pleasure. And he that observeth not one day more than another, doth it to please the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. and he that eateth not, eateth not to please the Lord with all, and giveth God thanks.
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth,