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Acts 15:20

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:20 · King James Version

In other versions

  • but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

    ASV

  • But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

    BBE

  • but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

    DBY

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

    WEB

  • but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

    YLT

  • But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

    ENG

  • But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.

    WBT

  • Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

    BSB

In context

18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

22Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

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