20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-21)We have here a council called, not by writ, but by consent, on this occasion (Acts 15:6): The apostles and presbyters came together, to consider this matter . They did not give their judgment separately, but came together to do it, that they might hear one another’s sense in this matter; for in the multitude of counsellors there is safety and satisfaction. They did not give their judgment rashly,…
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