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Acts 15:20

Purity

18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

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

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
KJV
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
WEB
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
ASV
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
DARBY
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
BLB
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and [from] sexual immorality, and [from] that which is strangled, and from blood.
ÅB
men skrive til dem at de skal avholde seg fra avgudenes urenhet og fra hor og fra det som er kvalt, og fra blod.
OTB
men i stedet skal vi skrive til dem og instruere dem om å avstå fra mat forurenset av avguder, fra seksuell umoral, fra kjøtt av kvalte dyr, og fra blod.
B1930
men skrive til dem at de skal avholde sig fra avgudenes urenhet og fra hor og fra det som er kvalt, og fra blod.

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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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  • Revelation 2:20

    Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

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  • Revelation 2:14

    But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

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  • Leviticus 3:17

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

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  • Genesis 9:4

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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  • 1 Corinthians 8:4–13

    As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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  • Acts 21:25

    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.

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  • 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.

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