that you abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood, and from [anything] strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves back, you will do well. Farewell.

And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

You shall have no other gods beside Me.

You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

lest at any time you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call you, and you should eat of their feasts,

and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.

And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Do you pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do you go a-whoring after their abominations,

and [do you pollute yourselves] with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all things, and through whom we [live].

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

For if anyone should see you who has knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened so that they eat foods offered to idols?

But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

[No], but that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

But I have a few things against you, because you have there [some] who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, both to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

But I have [this] against you, that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols.

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent from the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and of wood, which neither are able to see nor to hear nor to walk.

and having in his hand a scroll having been opened. And he put his right foot on the sea, but his left [one] on the land,

Then the voice which I heard from heaven [was] speaking with me again and saying, "Go, take the little scroll which was open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land."

But now I write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, who is a fornicator, or covetous person, or an idolater, or abusive person, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a person.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both this [stomach] and these [foods]. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each [man] have his own wife, and let each [woman] have her own husband.

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and have not repented for the impurity and fornication and lewdness which they practiced.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

lest there be any fornicator or profane [person] like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

But concerning the Gentiles having believed, we wrote, having judged that they should keep no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, and [from anything] strangled, and from fornication."

But flesh with its lifeblood you shall not eat.

[It is] a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; you shall eat no fat and no blood.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat of oxen or sheep or goats.

Everyone that eats fat off the beasts, from which he will bring a burnt offering to the Lord- that soul shall perish from his people.

Every soul that shall eat blood, that soul shall perish from his people.

And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set My face against that soul that eats blood, and I will destroy [that soul] from [among] its people.

Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.

For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: everyone that eats it shall be destroyed.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

Take diligent heed that you eat no blood, for blood [is] the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.

You shall not eat it, that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, if you shall do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people unto the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves, and killed them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood.

Then I said, By no means, Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, nor have I eaten that which has died of itself, or was torn by beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Because every creature of God is good, and not one is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving,

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.