Logos Bible Study

Acts 15:20

Legacy Standard BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

20but that we write to them that they abstain from athings contaminated by idols and from bsexual immorality and from cwhat is strangled and from blood.

Read in Logos

Cross references

  1. aEx 34:15–17; Dan 1:8; Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 8:7, 13; 10:7f, 14–28; Rev 2:14, 20
  2. bLev 18:6–23
  3. cGen 9:4; Lev 3:17; 7:26; 17:10, 14; 19:26; Deut 12:16, 23; 15:23; 1 Sam 14:33

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

NLTNew Living Translation

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from eating food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from consuming blood.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

KJV 1900King James Version

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