So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Acts 15:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But we should send word to them in writing to abstain from and avoid anything that has been polluted by being offered to idols, and all sexual impurity, and [eating meat of animals] that have been strangled, and [tasting of] blood. American Standard Version (1901) but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. Common English Bible Instead, we should write a letter, telling them to avoid the pollution associated with idols, sexual immorality, eating meat from strangled animals, and consuming blood. Catholic Public Domain Version but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. |
So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Do not make gods of silver to rival me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.
Therefore say to them, “This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land?
But I said, ‘Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.’
Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief eunuch not to defile himself.
‘You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am the Lord.
‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it. , You are not to practise divination or witchcraft.
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.’
The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.’
With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.’
But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
‘Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,’ and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, ,
But because sexual immorality is so common, , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘we all have knowledge’. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practised.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
‘You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident foreigner within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.
Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
and he held a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,
Then the voice that I 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.’
But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.
The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshipping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.
they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, goats, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.
Some reported to Saul, ‘Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood still in it.’ Saul said, ‘You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once.’