🌊WEB · Acts 15:20
What does Acts 15:20 mean?
"but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood."
— Acts 15:20 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.
All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’
“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
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