Acts 15:29 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 15:29

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON ROMANS 9.28 (253)

Now in these precepts where it says that no other burden ought to be imposed on Gentile believers except abstinence from the sacrifices of idols, from blood, from what has been suffocated and from fornication, homicide is not forbidden, nor adultery, nor theft, nor homosexual acts, nor other crimes that are punished by divine and human laws. But if it is saying that Christians must observe only that which it has recounted, it will appear to some that it granted license concerning the rest.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Clement of Alexandria

The Stromata Book 4 (215)

For the apostle says, "All other things buy out of the shambles, asking no questions," with the exception of the things mentioned in the Catholic epistle of all the apostles, "with the consent of the Holy Ghost," which is written in the Acts of the Apostles, and conveyed to the faithful by the hands of Paul himself.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

From Adam to Noah no man ate flesh at all; consequently no man then ate blood. When God allowed Noah and his posterity to eat flesh, he absolutely forbade them to eat blood; and accordingly this, with the other six precepts of Noah, was delivered down from Noah to Moses. God renewed this prohibition by Moses, which was not repealed from the time of Moses till Christ came.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀπέχεσθαι	apechesthai	to abstain	G568 →
εἰδωλοθύτων	eidōlothutōn	from idol-sacrifices	G1494 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αἵματος	aimatos	from blood	G129 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πνικτῶν	pniktōn	from a strangled [one]	G4156 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πορνείας·	porneias	from sexual immorality;	G4202 →
ἐξ	ex	From	G1537 →
ὧν	hōn	these	G3739 →
διατηροῦντες	diatērountes	keeping	G1301 →
ἑαυτοὺς	he'autous	yourselves	G1438 →
εὖ	eu	well	G2095 →
πράξετε.	praxete	you will do.	G4238 →
ἔρρωσθε.¶	errōsthe	Farewell!	G4517 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
leads to
- Revelation 2:14
  But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 16:31
  And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then…
- 1 Corinthians 10:18–21
  Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
Through
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
leads to
- Revelation 2:20
  But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 31:16
  “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- 2 Peter 2:15
  They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
- Numbers 25:1–3
  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Through
Leviticus 17:14
For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood;…
leads to
- Genesis 9:4
  But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.