20but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.


In Context

17 so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things

18 known from eternity.

19 Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;

20 but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

Acts 15:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:20But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:20But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.