Acts 21:25
But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”
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- Acts 15:29 : 29 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.
- Acts 15:19-20 : 19 “Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
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- Acts 15:19-202 verses88%
19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
20but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
- Acts 15:28-303 verses86%
28For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:
29that 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.
30So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the entire group together, they delivered the letter.
- Acts 21:21-244 verses78%
21They have been informed about you– that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
22What then should we do? They will no doubt hear that you have come.
23So do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow;
24take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.
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26Then Paul took the men the next day, and after he had purified himself along with them, he went to the temple and gave notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.
- Acts 15:24-252 verses73%
24Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,
25we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,
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28He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
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21and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”
- Rom 14:20-212 verses70%
20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
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19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
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14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
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14and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.
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27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
- 1 Cor 5:9-102 verses69%
9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.
- Acts 15:5-62 verses69%
5But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said,“It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”
6Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.
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1The Jerusalem Council Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers,“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
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3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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9and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
- Acts 16:3-42 verses68%
3Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.
4As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.
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19Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?
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21“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
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32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
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3Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.
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18Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.
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3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
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12Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.
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25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
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3saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”
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16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.
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7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
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21They replied,“We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.
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17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
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3For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
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11On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”
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6When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
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14But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”