Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God, ²⁰ but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood. ²¹ For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud 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 you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

Revelation 2:14

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

Revelation 2:20

But I hold it against you that you tolerate that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be inspired and who is misleading my slaves and teaching them to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

Acts 21:25

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have written them our decision that they must avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and immorality."

1 Corinthians 6:18

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:11

What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping??ith such a person you must not even eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

1 Corinthians 6:13

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

1 Corinthians 8:1

About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

Therefore, my dear brothers, have nothing to do with the worship of idols.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

Galatians 5:19

The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Ephesians 5:3

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

Colossians 3:5

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

Revelation 9:20

Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,

Revelation 10:2

and he had a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 10:8

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, "Go and take the little scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."