Acts 21:25
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
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ASV
But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
KJV
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
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19 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| περὶ | peri | Concerning | G4012 → |
| δὲ | de | now | G1161 → |
| τῶν | tōn | those | G3588 → |
| πεπιστευκότων | pepisteukotōn | having believed | G4100 → |
| ἐθνῶν | ethnōn | of the Gentiles | G1484 → |
| ἡμεῖς | hēmeis | we ourselves | G3165 → |
| ἐπεστείλαμεν | epesteilamen | wrote to | G1989 → |
| κρίναντες | krinantes | having adjudged | G2919 → |
| φυλάσσεσθαι | phulassesthai | to keep from | G5442 → |
| αὐτοὺς | autous | them | G846 → |
| τό | to | the | G3588 → |
| τε | te | both | G5037 → |
| εἰδωλόθυτον | eidōlothuton | idol-sacrifices | G1494 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| αἷμα | haima | blood | G129 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| πνικτὸν | pnikton | what is strangled | G4156 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| πορνείαν.¶ | porneian | sexual immorality. | G4202 → |
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