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. Cross References Genesis 9:4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. Exodus 34:15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. Leviticus 3:17 This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood." Leviticus 7:26 You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings. Leviticus 17:10 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:14 For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, 'You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.' Leviticus 18:6 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery. Deuteronomy 12:16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Deuteronomy 15:23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. 1 Samuel 14:32 So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it. 1 Samuel 14:33 Then someone reported to Saul: "Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it." "You have broken faith," said Saul. "Roll a large stone over here at once." Daniel 1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself. Acts 15:29 You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. 1 Corinthians 8:1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 1 Corinthians 8:10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols? 1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry." 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. Treasury of Scripture But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. from pollutions. Acts 15:29 Genesis 35:2 Exodus 20:3-5,23 fornication. 1 Corinthians 5:11 1 Corinthians 6:9,13,18 1 Corinthians 7:2 things. Acts 21:25 Genesis 9:4 Leviticus 3:17 |