Ezekiel 33:25

25Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: aYou eat flesh with the blood and blift up your eyes to your idols and cshed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 44:7

7in dadmitting foreigners, euncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, fprofaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You
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have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:15

Rules for Levitical Priests

15“But hthe Levitical priests, ithe sons of Zadok, who kept jthe charge of my sanctuary kwhen the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me lto minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me mthe fat and the blood, declares the Lord God.

Matthew 16:24

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

24Then Jesus told his disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him ndeny himself and otake up his cross and follow me.

Matthew 26:28

28for pthis is my qblood of the
Some manuscripts insert new
covenant, which is poured out for smany tfor the forgiveness of sins.

Acts 15:20-21

20but should write to them uto abstain from vthe things polluted by idols, and from wsexual immorality, and from xwhat has been strangled, and from yblood. 21For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, zfor he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Acts 15:29

29 aathat you abstain from abwhat has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Ephesians 1:7

7 acIn him we have adredemption aethrough his blood, afthe forgiveness of our trespasses, agaccording to the riches of his grace,

Ephesians 5:26

26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by ahthe washing of water aiwith the word,
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