Acts 15:20
We should write to them and tell them to avoid food sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, meat of animals that have been strangled, and from consuming blood.
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19So my decision is that we shouldn't make it difficult for foreigners who turn to God.
Cross References
Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his family and everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the pagan idols you have with you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Exodus 20:23You must not make any idols of silver or gold to worship in addition to me.
Leviticus 3:17You must not eat any fat or any blood. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations everywhere you live.”
Leviticus 17:10I will disown any Israelite or any foreigner living among them who eats any blood and I will expel them from their people.
Deuteronomy 12:16but you are not to eat the blood—pour that out on the ground.
Deuteronomy 14:21You must not eat any animal that dies. You can give it to a foreigner in your town, and they can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. You, however, are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat 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 →