Acts 15:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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.

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Genesis 35:2

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.

Genesis 9:4

However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

Exodus 20:23

Do not make gods of silver to rival me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.

Ezekiel 33:25

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?

Ezekiel 4:14

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 1:8

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.

Leviticus 18:6

‘You are not to come near  any close relative  for sexual intercourse;  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it.  , You are not to practise divination  or witchcraft.

Leviticus 3:17

This is a permanent statute  throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.’

Numbers 25:2

The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

Acts 15:29

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.’

Acts 21:25

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.’

1 Corinthians 5:11

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.

1 Corinthians 6:13

‘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.

1 Corinthians 6:18

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.

1 Corinthians 6:9

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,  ,

1 Corinthians 7:2

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.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols:  We know that ‘we all have knowledge’. Knowledge puffs up,  but love  builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:21

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.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:  sexual immorality,  moral impurity,  promiscuity,

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality  and any impurity  or greed  should not even be heard of  among you, as is proper for saints.

Deuteronomy 12:16

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

‘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.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity,  lust,  evil desire, and greed,  which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God’s will,  your sanctification:  that you keep away  from sexual immorality,

Hebrews 12:16

And make sure that there isn’t any immoral  or irreverent  person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Peter 4:3

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.

Revelation 10:2

and he held a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,

Revelation 10:8

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.’

Revelation 2:14

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.

Revelation 2:20

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.

Revelation 9:20

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.

1 Samuel 14:32

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.

1 Samuel 14:33

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.’