Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ wherefore my opinion is not to disquiet the Gentile converts: but only to write to them, ²⁰ that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood. ²¹ for as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.

Revelation 2:14

but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:20

notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel, who stiles herself a prophetess, and teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Acts 21:25

as for the believing Gentiles, we have given them by letter this decision, "they need only take care to abstain from meats offered to idols, from blood, from the flesh of animals strangled, and from fornication."

1 Corinthians 6:18

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

1 Corinthians 5:11

but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

1 Corinthians 6:13

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

1 Corinthians 7:2

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is 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

and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness.

Galatians 5:19

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

1 Timothy 4:4-5

for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:

Hebrews 12:16

let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

1 Peter 4:3

for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.

Revelation 9:20

As for the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of their evil actions, so as to forbear worshipping demons, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 10:2

he held in his hand a little book open: his right foot was upon the sea, and his left foot on the land.

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from heaven, spake to me again, and said, "go, take the little book that is open, from the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea, and upon the land."