Acts 21:25

23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;

24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

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ÅB
Men om de hedninger som har tatt ved troen, har vi sendt brev og vedtatt at de ikke skal holde noe slikt, men bare vokte seg for avgudsoffer og blod og det som er kvalt, og hor.
OTB
Når det gjelder de troende hedningene, har vi skrevet til dem vår beslutning om at de skal avstå fra mat ofret til avguder, fra blod, fra det som er kvalt, og fra seksuell umoral."
B1930
Men om de hedninger som har tatt ved troen, har vi sendt brev og vedtatt at de ikke skal holde noget sådant, men bare vokte sig for avgudsoffer og blod og det som er kvalt, og hor.
BSB
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
KJV
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
WEB
But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
ASV
But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
DARBY
But concerning [those of] the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should [observe no such thing, only to] keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.
BLB
Now concerning those of the Gentiles having believed, we wrote, having adjudged, to keep themselves from both the things sacrificed to idols and blood, and [from] what is strangled and sexual immorality.”

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  • Acts 15:29

    That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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  • Acts 15:19–20

    Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

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