Acts 15:20

but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

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In The King James Version

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

In Context

19Because of this, I judge that those who were converted to God from among the Gentiles are not to be disturbed,

21For Moses, from ancient times, has had in each city those who preach him in the synagogues, where he is read on every Sabbath.”

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Cross References

Genesis 35:2In truth, Jacob, having called together all his house, said: “Cast away the foreign gods that are in your midst and be cleansed, and also change your garments.

Exodus 20:23You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Leviticus 3:17by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 17:10Any man at all of the house of Israel, or of the newcomers who sojourn among them, if he has eaten blood, I will harden my face against his soul, and I will drive him from his people.

Deuteronomy 12:16Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

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 →

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