Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ For these reasons, my judgment is, that we give no trouble to those who, from among the Gentiles, have turned to God; ²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For, from ancient times, Moses has, in every city, those who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath-day.

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Acts 15:29

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you, that you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to practice lewdness.

Revelation 2:20

But I have against you that you suffer that woman Jezebel, who calls her self a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my servants to practice lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Acts 21:25

But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:11

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

Ephesians 5:3

But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving;

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of men that were not killed by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they might not worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk;

Revelation 10:2

And he had in his hand a little book opened; and he placed his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land;

Revelation 10:8

And the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said: Go and take the little book that is open in the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and on the land.