Acts 15:20
but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
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In The King James Version
In Context
19Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,
Cross References
Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make [other gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make to you.
Leviticus 3:17It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 17:10And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. Thou shall not boil a
Matthew Henry on Acts 15:7-22
The Council at Jerusalem. 6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by… Read the whole commentary →