Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Wherefore, I judge that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God; ²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood; ²¹ for Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those preaching him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath."

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well."

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:20

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces My servants to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

Acts 21:25

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we sent to them, having given judgment, that they should keep themselves from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication."

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:11

but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner??ith such a one, not even to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 7:2

but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know because we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been 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.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

Colossians 3:5

Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

1 Timothy 4:4-5

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

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the men, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship the demons, and the 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 set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land;

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from Heaven, I heard again, talking with me, and saying, "Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel, who is standing upon the sea and upon the land."