Acts 15:28-29

The Council's Letter to Gentile Believers

28 For it has seemed good g to the Holy Spirit and h to us i to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 29 j that you abstain from k 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."

  1. Cross References
    Acts 15:8
    And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us.
    Acts 5:32
    And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
    John 16:13
    When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
    1 Corinthians 7:40
    Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
  2. Cross References
    Acts 15:19
    Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God.
  3. Cross References
    Acts 15:10
    Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
    Revelation 2:24
    But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
  4. Cross References
    Acts 15:20
    But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
  5. Cross References
    Acts 21:25
    But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we h...
    1 Corinthians 8:1
    Now concerning food offered to idols: we know t...
    1 Corinthians 8:4
    Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to ...
    1 Corinthians 8:7
    However, not all possess this knowledge. But so...
    1 Corinthians 8:10
    For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eatin...
    1 Corinthians 10:19
    What do I imply then? That food offered to idol...
    Revelation 2:14
    But I have a few things against you: you have s...
    Revelation 2:20
    But I have this against you, that you tolerate ...
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