Acts 15:20
King James Version (KJV)
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
In context
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Acts 15:20 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- WEB World English Bible
- but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- ASV American Standard Version
- but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
- DBY Darby Translation
- but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.