Acts 15:29
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29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”(A)
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- 15.29 Other ancient authorities lack and from what is strangled
Genesis 9:4
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4 Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.(A)
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Leviticus 3:17
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17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:16
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16 The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:23
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23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:7
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7 Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:8
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8 We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:14
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14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from the worship of idols.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:20
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20 No, I imply that what they[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.(A)
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- 10.20 Other ancient authorities read the gentiles
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