Acts 21:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

For as touching ye Gentiles, which beleeue, we haue written, & determined that they obserue no such thing, but that they keepe themselues from things offred to idoles, and from blood, and from that that is strangled, and from fornication.

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  • Acts 15:29 : 29 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.
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them of the Gentiles that are turned to God, 20 But that we send vnto them, that they absteine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.

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  • Acts 15:19-20
    2 verses
    88%

    19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them of the Gentiles that are turned to God,

    20But that we send vnto them, that they absteine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.

  • Acts 15:28-30
    3 verses
    86%

    28For it seemed good to the holy Ghost, and to vs, to lay no more burden vpon you, then these necessary things,

    29That 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.

    30Nowe when they were departed, they came to Antiochia, and after that they had assembled the multitude, they deliuered the Epistle.

  • Acts 21:21-24
    4 verses
    78%

    21Now they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes, which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, and sayest that they ought not to circumcise their sonnes, neither to liue after the customes.

    22What is then to be done? the multitude must needes come together: for they shall heare that thou art come.

    23Doe therefore this that we say to thee. We haue foure men, which haue made a vowe,

    24Them take, and purifie thy selfe with them, and contribute with them, that they may shaue their heads: and all shall knowe, that those things, whereof they haue bene informed concerning thee, are nothing, but that thou thy selfe also walkest and keepest the Lawe.

  • Acts 21:26
    74%

    26Then Paul tooke the men, and the next day was purified with them, and entred into the Temple, declaring the accomplishment of the dayes of the purification, vntill that an offering should be offered for euery one of them.

  • Acts 15:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24Forasmuch as we haue heard, that certaine which went out from vs, haue troubled you with wordes, and cumbred your mindes, saying, Ye must be circumcised and keepe the Lawe: to whom we gaue no such commaundement,

    25It seemed therefore good to vs, when we were come together with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,

  • Acts 10:28
    70%

    28And he sayd vnto them, Ye know that it is an vnlawfull thing for a man that is a Iewe, to company, or come vnto one of another nation: but God hath shewed me, that I should not call any man polluted, or vncleane.

  • Acts 16:21
    70%

    21And preache ordinances, which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, seeing we are Romanes.

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    70%

    20Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.

    21It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

  • 1 Cor 7:19
    70%

    19Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandements of God.

  • Rom 14:14
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    14I know, and am perswaded through the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth any thing to be vncleane, to him it is vncleane.

  • Titus 1:14
    69%

    14And not taking heede to Iewish fables and commaundements of men, that turne away from the trueth.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
    69%

    27If any of them which beleeue not, call you to a feast, and if ye wil go, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,

    10And not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or with extorsioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must goe out of the world.

  • Acts 15:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5But said they, certaine of the sect of the Pharises, which did beleeue, rose vp, saying, that it was needefull to circumcise them, and to commaunde them to keepe the lawe of Moses.

    6Then the Apostles and Elders came together to looke to this matter.

  • Acts 15:1
    68%

    1Then came downe certaine from Iudea, and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the maner of Moses, ye cannot be saued.

  • Acts 21:19
    68%

    19And when he had embraced them, hee tolde by order all things, that God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministration.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    68%

    3Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

  • Acts 15:9
    68%

    9And he put no difference betweene vs and them, after that by faith he had purified their heartes.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    68%

    5And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

  • Acts 16:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3Therefore Paul would that he should go forth with him, and tooke and circumcised him, because of ye Iewes, which were in those quarters: for they knewe all, that his father was a Grecian.

    4And as they went through the cities, they deliuered them the decrees to keepe, ordeined of the Apostles & Elders, which were at Hierusalem.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21As, Touch not, Taste not, Handle not.

  • 1 Cor 10:32
    68%

    32Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:

  • Gal 2:3
    68%

    3But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised,

  • Acts 14:18
    67%

    18And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spet the time past of ye life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, drunkenes, in gluttonie, drinkings, & in abominable idolatries.

    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • Gal 2:12
    67%

    12For before that certaine came fro Iames, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew & separated himselfe, fearing them which were of the Circumcision.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    67%

    25Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

  • Acts 11:3
    67%

    3Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, and hast eaten with them.

  • 1 Thess 2:16
    67%

    16And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.

  • 1 Cor 8:7
    67%

    7But euery man hath not that knowledge: for many hauing conscience of the idole, vntill this houre, eate as a thing sacrificed vnto the idole, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled.

  • Acts 28:21
    67%

    21Then they saide vnto him, We neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither came any of the brethren that shewed or spake any euill of thee.

  • Eph 4:17
    67%

    17This I say therefore and testifie in the Lorde, that yee hencefoorth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in vanitie of their minde,

  • 1 Thess 4:3
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    3For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

  • Acts 15:11
    67%

    11But we beleeue, through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ to be saued, euen as they doe.

  • Acts 18:6
    67%

    6And when they resisted and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, & saide vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head: I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the Gentiles.

  • Gal 2:14
    67%

    14But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, If thou being a Iewe, liuest as the Gentiles, and not like the Iewes, why constrainest thou the Gentiles to doe like the Iewes?

  • 1 Cor 8:4
    67%

    4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed vnto idoles, we knowe that an idole is nothing in the worlde, and that there is none other God but one.