Acts 15:20
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;
Cross References
Genesis 35:2And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold.
Leviticus 3:17[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
Leviticus 17:10And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people;
Deuteronomy 12:16Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
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 →