Acts 15:20
but to write to them to abstain from the defilements of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing, and the blood;
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In Context
19For this reason I judge: not to trouble those who turn back to God from the nations,
Cross References
Genesis 35:2And Jacob says to his household, and to all who [are] with him, “Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
Exodus 20:23you do not make gods of silver and gods of gold [to be] with Me—you do not make [any idol] for yourselves.
Leviticus 3:17[This is] a continuous statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.”
Leviticus 17:10And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners who is sojourning in your midst, who eats any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;
Deuteronomy 12:16Only, you do not eat the blood—you pour it on the earth as water;
Deuteronomy 14:21You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do 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 →