Acts 15:29
To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
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Acts 15:29
To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
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Acts 15:20
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
Acts 15:21
For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.
Acts 21:25
But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.
1 Samuel 14:32
And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.
1 Samuel 14:33
Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.
1 Samuel 14:34
And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
Ezekiel 33:25
For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
John 6:53
Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.
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Acts 15:23
And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you:
Acts 15:24
Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;
Acts 15:25
It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts 15:26
Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:27
And so we have sent Judas and Silas, who will say the same things to you themselves, by word of mouth.
Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;
Acts 15:29
To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
Acts 15:30
So they, being sent away, came down to Antioch, and having got the people together, they gave them the letter.
Acts 15:31
And after reading it, they were glad of its comfort.
Acts 16:4
And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.
Revelation 2:24
But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.
Acts 15:10
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
Acts 15:19
For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;
Acts 15:36
And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.
Galatians 2:9
When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
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Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
Leviticus 17:10
And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.
Leviticus 17:12
For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.
Leviticus 17:13
And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.
Leviticus 17:14
For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.
Leviticus 7:26
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Leviticus 7:27
Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Leviticus 3:17
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
Deuteronomy 12:23
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:24
Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
Leviticus 19:26
Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
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Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 10:18
See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?
1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:20
What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
1 Corinthians 10:21
It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
Numbers 25:2
For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
Romans 14:14
I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
1 Corinthians 10:28
But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:
Acts 10:15
And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
Romans 14:20
Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
Romans 14:21
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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Acts 23:30
And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Luke 9:61
And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.
Acts 18:21
And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
1 Corinthians 6:18
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
Ephesians 5:3
But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;
Matthew 5:32
But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
Hebrews 13:4
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
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1 Timothy 5:22
Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
1 John 5:21
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
Deuteronomy 23:9
When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.
Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
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Acts 11:9
But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
1 Corinthians 6:12
I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
Hebrews 9:10
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
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3 John 1:6
Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:
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