Acts 15:29

²⁷ Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to tell you in person the same things we are writing.

²⁸ It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements:

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

³⁰ So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter.

³¹ When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.

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: You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
KJV: 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.
WEB: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
ASV: that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
DARBY: to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.
BLB: to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. Keeping yourselves from these, you⁺ will do well. Farewell.

ÅB: at dere avholder dere fra avgudsoffer og blod og det som er kvalt, og hor; dersom dere vokter dere for disse ting, vil det gå dere vel. Lev vel!
OTB: Dere skal avstå fra mat ofret til avguder, fra blod, fra kjøtt av kvalte dyr, og fra seksuell umoral. Hvis dere holder dere borte fra disse tingene, vil dere gjøre det godt. Farvel.
B1930: at I avholder eder fra avgudsoffer og blod og det som er kvalt, og hor; dersom I vokter eder for disse ting, vil det gå eder vel. Lev vel!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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Acts 15:20
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.
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Acts 21:25
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.”
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Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
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Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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Leviticus 17:14
For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
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1 Corinthians 10:18–20
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
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Romans 14:20–21
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
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Jude 1:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
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