Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Wherefore my sentence is, That we trouble not them who from among the Gentiles turn to God. ²⁰ But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood. ²¹ For Moses hath of old time them that preach him in every city, 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

Acts 15:29

and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there them that hold the doctrine 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 against thee, that thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who callest herself a prophetess, and teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Acts 21:25

As touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written and determined, that they should observe no such thing; save only that they keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate,

1 Corinthians 6:13

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as to things sacrified to idols, we know: for all of us have knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Neither be ye idolaters, as were 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

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

Ephesians 5:3

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving.

Hebrews 12:16

as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

Revelation 9:20

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

Revelation 10:2

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

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake with me again, and said, Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who standeth on the sea and on the earth.