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

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25 With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that[a] they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:25 Other mss add they should observe no such thing, except that

14 But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,(A) who taught Balak to place a stumbling block[a] in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols(B) and to commit sexual immorality.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:14 Or to place a trap

20 But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,(A) who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.(B)

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