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29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”(A)

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  1. 15.29 Other ancient authorities lack and from what is strangled

29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.(A) You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

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Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.(A)

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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(A)

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17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”(A)

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17 “‘This is a lasting ordinance(A) for the generations to come,(B) wherever you live:(C) You must not eat any fat or any blood.(D)’”

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16 The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.(A)

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16 But you must not eat the blood;(A) pour(B) it out on the ground like water.(C)

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23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.(A)

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23 But be sure you do not eat the blood,(A) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.(B)

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Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”(A)

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Do not be idolaters,(A) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[a](B)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Exodus 32:6

We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.(A)

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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.(A)

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14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from the worship of idols.(A)

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Idol Feasts and the Lord’s Supper

14 Therefore, my dear friends,(A) flee from idolatry.(B)

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20 No, I imply that what they[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.(A)

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  1. 10.20 Other ancient authorities read the gentiles

20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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