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Acts.15.20

Acts 15:20

KJV

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

The Council at Jerusalem

James’s Judgment
Illustration for Acts 15:20

Cross References

Exodus 34:15
KJVGOD
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

The LORD Renews the Covenant

The Covenant Renewed
Leviticus 3:17
KJVGOD
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Laws for Peace Offerings

Leviticus 17:10
KJVGOD
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Laws against Eating Blood

Blood for Atonement
Leviticus 17:14
KJVGOD
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Laws against Eating Blood

Blood for Atonement
Leviticus 18:6
KJVGOD
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

Unlawful Sexual Relations

1 Samuel 14:32
KJV
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

Jonathan Eats the Honey

Saul’s Foolish Order
1 Samuel 14:33
KJV
¶ Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

Jonathan Eats the Honey

Saul’s Foolish Order
Daniel 1:8
KJV
¶ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Daniel’s Faithfulness

Daniel’s Resolve
Acts 15:29
KJV
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

The Letter to the Gentile Believers

James’s Judgment
1 Corinthians 8:10
KJV
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Food Sacrificed to Idols