Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ "My judgment therefore, is against troubling those who turn to God from among the Gentiles; ²⁰ "but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood. ²¹ "For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Acts 15:29

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

Acts 21:25

"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

1 Corinthians 6:13

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 7:2

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

So then, my beloved, continually flee from idolatry.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

Ephesians 5:3

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

Colossians 3:5

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

Hebrews 12:16

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of mankind who were not killed with these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They would not give up the worship of demons and of idols made of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

Revelation 10:2

In his hand he had a little book, open; and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the land.

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I had heard from heaven, I heard again, speaking to me, and saying, "Go, take the little book that is open in the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea and upon the land."