Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those who have turned to God from among the nations, ²⁰ but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses from ages past has those in every city proclaiming him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a statute forever for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which, if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Be prospered.

Genesis 9:4

But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak 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 you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.

Exodus 34:15-16

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and call you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

Leviticus 17:10-14

And any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat the blood of it. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been defiled. For from my youth up, even till now, I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither did there come any unclean flesh into my mouth.

Acts 21:25

And as to the nations who believe, we joined in writing, judging them to observe no such things, except only that they keep themselves from both idol sacrifice, and blood, and a thing strangled, and from fornication.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Genesis 35:2

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments.

Exodus 20:3-5

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither shall you make to you gods of gold.

Leviticus 7:23-27

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Numbers 25:2

And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:23-25

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and killed them on the ground. And the people ate with the blood.

Psalm 106:37-39

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

Ezekiel 20:30-31

Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiled in the same way as your fathers? And do you go whoring after their abominations?

Ezekiel 33:25

So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel laid on his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Ephesians 5:3

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

Hebrews 12:16

(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and golden, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols (which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk).

Revelation 10:2

And he had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the earth.

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from Heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.