Acts 21:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`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.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 15:29 : 29 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!'
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God, 20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

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  • Acts 15:19-20
    2 verses
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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 15:28-30
    3 verses
    86%

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

    29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

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

  • Acts 21:21-24
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    21and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

    22what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.

    23`This, therefore, do that we say to thee: We have four men having a vow on themselves,

    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.

  • Acts 21:26
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    26Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.

  • Acts 15:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    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 --

  • Acts 10:28
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    28And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

  • Acts 16:21
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    21and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.'

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:19
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    19the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

  • Rom 14:14
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    14I 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;

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

  • 1 Cor 10:27
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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;

  • 1 Cor 5:9-10
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    69%

    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 --

  • Acts 15:5-6
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    5and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- `It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'

    6And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,

  • Acts 15:1
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    1And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'

  • Acts 21:19
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    19and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

  • Acts 15:9
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    9and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

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

  • Acts 16:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

    4And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who `are' in Jerusalem,

  • 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? --

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

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

  • Gal 2:3
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    3but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

  • Acts 14:18
    67%

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

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    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,

  • Gal 2:12
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    12for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    67%

    25Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

  • Acts 11:3
    67%

    3saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'

  • 1 Thess 2:16
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    16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!

  • 1 Cor 8:7
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    7but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

  • Acts 28:21
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    21And they said unto him, `We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee,

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 1 Thess 4:3
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    3for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

  • Acts 15:11
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    11but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.'

  • Acts 18:6
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    6and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;