Acts 15:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

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  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'
  • 1 Cor 10:18-20 : 18 See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar? 19 what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? -- 20 `no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
  • 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.
  • Jude 1:20-21 : 20 And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, 21 yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,
  • Rom 14:14-15 : 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean; 15 and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:20-21 : 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling. 21 Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
  • Acts 18:21 : 21 but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,
  • Lev 17:14 : 14 for `it is' the life of all flesh, its blood is for its life; and I say to the sons of Israel, Blood of any flesh ye do not eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood; any one eating it is cut off.
  • Luke 9:61 : 61 And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'
  • Acts 23:30 : 30 and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 15:19-20
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    19wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

    20but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

  • Acts 21:24-25
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    86%

    24these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.

    25`And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

  • Acts 15:28
    79%

    28`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:

  • Acts 15:30
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    30They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

    28and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:

  • 1 Thess 4:2-3
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    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

    3for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
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    9I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --

    10and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --

    11and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

  • 1 Cor 10:14
    72%

    14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

  • Acts 15:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,

    25it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    72%

    3forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

  • Heb 13:9
    71%

    9with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
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    2no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

    3for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Titus 1:14
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    14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,

  • 1 Cor 10:32
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    32become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
    69%

    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

  • Rom 16:17
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    17And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

  • 1 Thess 5:22
    69%

    22from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

  • Rom 13:14
    68%

    14but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

  • Rom 14:15-16
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    68%

    15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

    16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    68%

    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

    9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

    10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

  • 1 Pet 2:11
    68%

    11Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

  • Exod 34:15
    68%

    15`Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

  • 1 Cor 7:1
    68%

    1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

  • Col 3:5
    67%

    5Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

  • Col 2:21
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    21-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • Acts 14:15
    67%

    15and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

  • 1 Cor 11:34
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    34and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:11
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    11Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;