Acts 15:20 Cross References

Acts 15:20

20: except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals.

Acts 15:29

  1. You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell."

Leviticus 3:17

  1. "You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you and all your descendants, wherever they may live."

Revelation 2:20

  1. But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman--that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet--to lead my servants astray. She is encouraging them to worship idols, eat food offered to idols, and commit sexual sin.

Revelation 2:14

  1. And yet I have a few complaints against you. You tolerate some among you who are like Balaam, who showed Balak how to trip up the people of Israel. He taught them to worship idols by eating food offered to idols and by committing sexual sin.

Genesis 9:4

  1. But you must never eat animals that still have their lifeblood in them.

Acts 21:25

  1. "As for the Gentile Christians, all we ask of them is what we already told them in a letter: They should not eat food offered to idols, nor consume blood, nor eat meat from strangled animals, and they should stay away from all sexual immorality."

1 Corinthians 8:4

  1. So now, what about it? Should we eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God and no other.
  2. According to some people, there are many so-called gods and many lords, both in heaven and on earth.
  3. But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we exist for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life.
  4. However, not all Christians realize this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.
  5. It's true that we can't win God's approval by what we eat. We don't miss out on anything if we don't eat it, and we don't gain anything if we do.

Deuteronomy 12:16

  1. The only restriction is that you are not to eat the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

Exodus 34:15

  1. "Do not make treaties of any kind with the people living in the land. They are spiritual prostitutes, committing adultery against me by sacrificing to their gods. If you make peace with them, they will invite you to go with them to worship their gods, and you are likely to do it.
  2. And you will accept their daughters, who worship other gods, as wives for your sons. Then they will cause your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.

1 Corinthians 8:1

  1. Now let's talk about food that has been sacrificed to idols. You think that everyone should agree with your perfect knowledge. While knowledge may make us feel important, it is love that really builds up the church.

1 Peter 4:3

  1. You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

Deuteronomy 15:23

  1. But do not eat the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Corinthians 10:7

  1. or worship idols as some of them did. For the Scriptures say, "The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged themselves in pagan revelry."
  2. And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

Leviticus 17:10

  1. "And I will turn against anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you, who eats or drinks blood in any form. I will cut off such a person from the community,
  2. for the life of any creature is in its blood. I have given you the blood so you can make atonement for your sins. It is the blood, representing life, that brings you atonement.
  3. That is why I said to the Israelites: `You and the foreigners who live among you must never eat or drink blood.'
  4. "And this command applies both to Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. If you go hunting and kill an animal or bird that is approved for eating, you must drain out the blood and cover it with earth.
  5. The life of every creature is in the blood. That is why I have told the people of Israel never to eat or drink it, for the life of any bird or animal is in the blood. So whoever eats or drinks blood must be cut off.

1 Corinthians 6:9

  1. Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

Ezekiel 4:14

  1. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."

1 Corinthians 6:18

  1. Run away from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

Revelation 9:20

  1. But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to turn from their evil deeds. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood--idols that neither see nor hear nor walk!

Numbers 25:2

  1. These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab.

Ezekiel 33:25

  1. Now give these people this message from the Sovereign LORD: You eat meat with blood in it, you worship idols, and you murder the innocent. Do you really think the land should be yours?

Hebrews 12:16

  1. Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau. He traded his birthright as the oldest son for a single meal.

Deuteronomy 14:21

  1. "Do not eat anything that has died a natural death. You may give it to a foreigner living among you, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But do not eat it yourselves, for you are set apart as holy to the LORD your God. "Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

1 Corinthians 7:2

  1. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

  1. Yes, I am afraid that when I come, God will humble me again because of you. And I will have to grieve because many of you who sinned earlier have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

1 Timothy 4:4

  1. Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it. We may receive it gladly, with thankful hearts.
  2. For we know it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

  1. God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin.

Revelation 10:8

  1. Then the voice from heaven called to me again: "Go and take the unrolled scroll from the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

Daniel 1:8

  1. But Daniel made up his mind not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the chief official for permission to eat other things instead.

Exodus 20:3

  1. "Do not worship any other gods besides me.
  2. "Do not make idols of any kind, whether in the shape of birds or animals or fish.
  3. You must never worship or bow down to them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not share your affection with any other god! I do not leave unpunished the sins of those who hate me, but I punish the children for the sins of their parents to the third and fourth generations.

Hebrews 13:4

  1. Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 12:23

  1. The only restriction is never to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
  2. Instead, pour out the blood on the ground like water.
  3. Do not eat the blood; then all will go well with you and your children, because you will be doing what pleases the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:30

  1. "Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: Do you plan to pollute yourselves just as your ancestors did? Do you intend to keep prostituting yourselves by worshiping detestable idols?
  2. For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices, you continue to pollute yourselves to this day. Should I listen to you or help you, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will not give you a message even though you have come to me requesting one.

Revelation 10:2

  1. And in his hand was a small scroll, which he had unrolled. He stood with his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

Galatians 5:19

  1. When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,

1 Samuel 14:32

  1. That evening they flew upon the battle plunder and butchered the sheep, cattle, and calves, but they ate them without draining the blood.

Ephesians 5:3

  1. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.

1 Corinthians 6:13

  1. You say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them. But our bodies were not made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.

Colossians 3:5

  1. So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual sin, impurity, lust, and shameful desires. Don't be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry.

Psalms 106:37

  1. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
  2. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
  3. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.

1 Corinthians 10:14

  1. So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.
  2. You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am about to say is true.
  3. When we bless the cup at the Lord's Table, aren't we sharing in the benefits of the blood of Christ? And when we break the loaf of bread, aren't we sharing in the benefits of the body of Christ?
  4. And we all eat from one loaf, showing that we are one body.
  5. And think about the nation of Israel; all who eat the sacrifices are united by that act.

1 Corinthians 5:11

  1. What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don't even eat with such people.

Leviticus 7:23

  1. "Give the Israelites these instructions: You must never eat fat, whether from oxen or sheep or goats.
  2. The fat of an animal found dead or killed by a wild animal may never be eaten, though it may be used for any other purpose.
  3. Anyone who eats fat from an offering given to the LORD by fire must be cut off from the community.
  4. Even in your homes, you must never eat the blood of any bird or animal.
  5. Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from the community."

Genesis 35:2

  1. So Jacob told everyone in his household, "Destroy your idols, wash yourselves, and put on clean clothing.

Exodus 20:23

  1. Remember, you must not make or worship idols of silver or gold.
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