BLB Act 15

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Act 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

from pollutions		Act 15:29; Gen 35:2; Exd 20:3-5,23; Exd 34:15,16; Num 25:2; Psa 106:37-39; Eze 20:30,31; 1Cr 8:1,4-13; 1Cr 10:20-22,28; Rev 2:14,20; Rev 9:20; Rev 10:2,8
fornication		1Cr 5:11; 1Cr 6:9,13,18; 1Cr 7:2; 2Cr 12:21; Gal 5:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:3; Hbr 12:16; Hbr 13:4; 1Pe 4:3
things		Act 21:25; Gen 9:4; Lev 3:17; Lev 7:23-27; Lev 17:10-14; Deu 12:16,23-25; Deu 14:21; Deu 15:23; 1Sa 14:32; Eze 4:14; Eze 33:25; 1Ti 4:4,5

Correlating Passages

from pollutions

	Act 15:29	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.
	Gen 35:2	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:
	Exd 20:3	Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
	Exd 20:4	Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
	Exd 20:5	Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
	Exd 20:23	Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
	Exd 34:15	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;
	Exd 34:16	And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
	Num 25:2	And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
	Psa 106:37	Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
	Psa 106:38	And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
	Psa 106:39	Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
	Eze 20:30	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?
	Eze 20:31	For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
	1Cr 8:1	Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
	1Cr 8:4	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.
	1Cr 8:5	For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
	1Cr 8:6	But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.
	1Cr 8:7	Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
	1Cr 8:8	But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
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	1Cr 10:20	But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
	1Cr 10:21	Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
	1Cr 10:22	Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
	1Cr 10:28	But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
	Rev 2:14	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.
	Rev 2:20	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.
	Rev 9:20	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:
	Rev 10:2	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,
	Rev 10:8	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.

fornication

	1Cr 5:11	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.
	1Cr 6:9	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,
	1Cr 6:13	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.
	1Cr 6:18	Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
	1Cr 7:2	Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
	2Cr 12:21	[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.
	Gal 5:19	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
	Eph 5:3	But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
	Col 3:5	Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
	1Th 4:3	For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
	Hbr 12:16	Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
	Hbr 13:4	Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
	1Pe 4:3	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:

things

	Act 21:25	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.
	Gen 9:4	But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
	Lev 3:17	[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
	Lev 7:23	Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
	Lev 7:24	And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
	Lev 7:25	For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth [it] shall be cut off from his people.
	Lev 7:26	Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
	Lev 7:27	Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
	Lev 17:10	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.
	Lev 17:11	For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.
	Lev 17:12	Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
	Lev 17:13	And whatsoever man [there be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
	Lev 17:14	For [it is] the life of all flesh; the blood of it [is] for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh [is] the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
	Deu 12:16	Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.