Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Wherefore I judge, not to molest them, from the nations turning back to God: ²⁰ But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood. ²¹ For Moses of ancient generations has them proclaiming him in every city, being read in the synagogues in every sabbath.

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Leviticus 3:17

A law forever to your generations in all your dwellings, all the fat and all the blood, ye shall not eat

Acts 15:29

To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Genesis 9:4

But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:20

But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.

Exodus 34:15-16

Lest thou shalt make a covenant to those dwelling in the land and they committed fornication after their gods, and sacrificed to their gods, and call to thee, and thou didst eat from his sacrifice;

Leviticus 17:10-14

And a man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in the midst of you, who shall eat any blood; and I gave my face against the soul eating the blood, and I cut it off from the midst of its people.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only its blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth shalt thou pour it as water.

Ezekiel 4:14

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah behold, my soul not being defiled: and a carcass and the torn in pieces I ate not from my youth and even till now; there came not flesh of uncleanness into my mouth.

Acts 21:25

And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.

Genesis 35:2

And Jacob will say to his house, and to all which are with him, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.

Exodus 20:3-5

There shall be no other God to thee to my face.

Exodus 20:23

Ye shall not make to me gods of silver, and gods of gold ye shall not make to yourselves.

Leviticus 7:23-27

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox, and lamb, and goat, ye shall not eat

Numbers 25:2

And she called the people to the sacrifices of their God: and the people will eat and will worship to their God.

Deuteronomy 12:23-25

Only be striving not to eat the blood, for the blood it is the soul; and thou. shalt not eat the soul with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat any carcass: to the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to a foreigner: for thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people will make to the spoil, and they will take sheep and oxen, and the young of oxen, and they will slaughter on the earth: and the people will eat upon the blood.

Psalm 106:37-39

And they will sacrifice their sons and their daughters to lords.

Ezekiel 20:30-31

For this, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Are ye defiled in the way of your fathers? and commit ye fornication after their abominations?'

Ezekiel 33:25

For this, say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Ye will eat with the bloods, and ye will lift up your eyes to your blocks, and ye will pour out blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Daniel 1:8

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

1 Corinthians 5:11

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

Wherefore, my beloved, do ye flee from idolatry.

2 Corinthians 12:21

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

Galatians 5:19

And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

Ephesians 5:3

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

Hebrews 12:16

Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of men who were not killed by these blows, neither repented of the works of their hands, that they should not worship evil spirits, and images of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood: which neither can see, neither hear, neither walk:

Revelation 10:2

And he had in his hand a small book opened: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the earth,

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from heaven again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the little book opened in the hand of the angel having stood upon the sea and upon the earth.