Acts 15:19-20

The Jerusalem Council

¹⁹ Therefore _n my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who _o turn to God, ²⁰ but should write to them _p to abstain from _q the things polluted by idols, and from _r sexual immorality, and from _s what has been strangled, and from _s blood.

1. Cross References
   Acts 15:28
   For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 14:15
   Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
   
3. Cross References
   Acts 21:25
   But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 15:29
   That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
   Ezekiel 4:13 - 14
   And the Lord said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
   Daniel 1:8
   But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
   Malachi 1:7
   By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, 'How have we polluted you?' By saying that the Lord 's table may be despised.
   Malachi 1:12
   But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 10:7 - 8
   Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
   Revelation 2:14
   But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
   Revelation 2:20
   But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
   1 Corinthians 6:18
   Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
   
6. Cross References
   Leviticus 3:17
   It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
   
7. Cross References
   Leviticus 3:17
   It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.