Acts 15:20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God: ²⁰ But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, 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.

Abstain from

Let Us

Put to Death

Sexual Immorality

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Leviticus 3:17

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

Acts 15:29

That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

Genesis 9:4

But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit lewdness.

Revelation 2:20

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

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Exodus 34:15-16

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go astray after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

Leviticus 17:10-14

And whatever man there may be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only thou shalt not eat its blood; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath abominable flesh come into my mouth.

Acts 21:25

As concerning the Gentiles who 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 lewdness.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

Genesis 35:2

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Exodus 20:3-5

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:23

Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make to you gods of gold.

Leviticus 7:23-27

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Numbers 25:2

And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:23-25

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it to the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to an alien: for thou art a holy people to the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

Psalm 106:37-39

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

Ezekiel 20:30-31

Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye lewd deeds after their abominations?

Ezekiel 33:25

Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person no not to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

Therefore as concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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.

1 Corinthians 10:14-28

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and lewdness, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 5:3

But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:

Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 10:2

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go, and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.