Acts 21:25

World English Bible (2000)

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

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  • Acts 15:29 : 29 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."
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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  • 88%

    19 "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

    20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

  • 86%

    28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

    29 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."

    30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

  • 78%

    21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.

    22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

    23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

    24 Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

  • 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

  • 73%

    24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

    25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

  • 28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

  • 21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

  • Rom 14:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

  • 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

  • 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • 27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

    10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

  • Acts 15:5-6
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    5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

    6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

  • 1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."

  • 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • Acts 16:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

    4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

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

  • 21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"

  • 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

  • 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

  • 25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

  • 3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"

  • 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

  • 7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

  • 21 They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

  • 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

  • 11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."

  • 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"

  • 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

  • 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.