That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
(Acts 15:17)Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
(Acts 15:18)Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
(Acts 15:19)But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
(Acts 15:21)Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
(Acts 15:22)And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
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Acts 15:20 - Cross Reference
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
(Ezekiel 20:30)And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
(Revelation 9:20)It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
(Leviticus 3:17)As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
(1 Corinthians 8:4)Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
(Hebrews 13:4)But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
(Ephesians 5:3)But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
(Revelation 2:14)Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
(Genesis 35:2)Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
(Galatians 5:19)For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
(1 Thessalonians 4:3)As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
(Acts 21:25)Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
(1 Corinthians 6:9)Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
(Leviticus 7:23)Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
(Colossians 3:5)For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
(1 Timothy 4:4)And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
(Leviticus 17:10)Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
(Revelation 2:20)Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
(Deuteronomy 12:23)Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
(Deuteronomy 14:21)And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
(1 Samuel 14:32)Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
(1 Corinthians 10:7)And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
(2 Corinthians 12:21)And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
(Numbers 25:2)Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
(Ezekiel 33:25)Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
(1 Corinthians 8:1)And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
(Revelation 10:2)Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
(Deuteronomy 12:16)But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
(Daniel 1:8)Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
(1 Corinthians 6:13)Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
(Ezekiel 4:14)That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
(Acts 15:29)Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
(Psalm 106:37)Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
(Exodus 20:23)And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
(Revelation 10:8)But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
(Genesis 9:4)But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
(1 Corinthians 5:11)Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
(1 Corinthians 7:2)For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(1 Peter 4:3)Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
(Exodus 34:15)Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
(1 Corinthians 6:18)Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
(Hebrews 12:16)Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
(Deuteronomy 15:23)