Acts 15:29

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    that is to saye that ye abstayne from thinges offered to ymages from bloud from strangled and fornicacion. From which yf ye kepe youre selves ye shall do well. So fare ye well.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    That ye absteyne from the offeringes of Idols, and from bloude, and from strangled, and from whordome. From the which yf ye absteyne youre selues, ye shal do well. Fare ye well.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    That is, that ye absteine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication: From which yf ye kepe your selues, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • 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!'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.
  • 1 Cor 10:18-20 : 18 Consider the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything? 20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have those there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites—to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching, she misleads my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Do not be hasty in laying on hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
  • Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless in the presence of His glory with great joy,
  • Rom 14:14-15 : 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.
  • Acts 18:21 : 21 But as he left, he said, 'I will return to you, God willing.' Then he set sail from Ephesus.
  • Lev 17:14 : 14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.
  • Luke 9:61 : 61 Another said, 'I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at my home.'
  • Acts 23:30 : 30 When I was informed of a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately and also instructed his accusers to state their case against him before you. Farewell.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 15:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

    19Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God.

    20Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.

  • Acts 21:24-25
    2 verses
    86%

    24Take these men, join in their purification rites, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth to these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

    25As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.

  • Acts 15:28
    79%

    28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you except these necessary things:

  • Acts 15:30
    78%

    30So they were sent off and went down to Antioch. When they gathered the assembly together, they delivered the letter.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

    28But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.

  • 1 Thess 4:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

    3For this is God’s will: your sanctification—that you abstain from sexual immorality.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, you would have to leave the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.

  • 1 Cor 10:14
    72%

    14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • Rom 14:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

  • Acts 15:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Since we have heard that some have gone out from us and troubled you with teachings, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no such instructions,

    25It seemed good to us, being in agreement, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    72%

    3They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Heb 13:9
    71%

    9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
    3 verses
    69%

    2As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.

    3For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Titus 1:14
    69%

    14not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
    69%

    17Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'

  • 1 Cor 10:32
    69%

    32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
    69%

    18Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
    69%

    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to restrict you, but so that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

  • Rom 16:17
    69%

    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

  • 1 Thess 5:22
    69%

    22Abstain from every form of evil.

  • Rom 13:14
    68%

    14But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

  • Rom 14:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    68%

    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
    3 verses
    68%

    8Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything?

  • 1 Pet 2:11
    68%

    11Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.

  • Exod 34:15
    68%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

  • 1 Cor 7:1
    68%

    1Now concerning the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

  • Col 3:5
    67%

    5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

  • Col 2:21
    67%

    21"Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle"—

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    67%

    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Acts 14:15
    67%

    15They cried out, 'Men, why are you doing these things? We are also humans with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.'

  • 1 Cor 11:34
    67%

    34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give further instructions.

  • Acts 14:18
    67%

    18Even with these words, they barely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    67%

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:11
    67%

    11Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.