Lev 17:14, Act 15:20, 21:25, Rom 14:14-15, 20-21, 1Cor 10:18-20, Rev 2:14, 20 | ESV | STEP | For the life of every creature is its blood : its blood is its life . Therefore I have said to the people of Israel , You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood . Whoever eats it shall be cut off .

Leviticus 17:14

14 For the life of every creature ^{▼▼Hebrew all flesh} is its ^bblood: its blood is its life. ^{▼▼Hebrew it is in its life} Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Acts 15:20

20 but should write to them ^dto abstain from ^ethe things polluted by idols, and from ^fsexual immorality, and from ^gwhat has been strangled, and from ^hblood.

Acts 21:25

25 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, ⁱwe have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit and from what has been strangled} and from sexual immorality.”

Romans 14:14-15

14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus ^kthat nothing is unclean in itself, ^lbut it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, ^myou are no longer walking in love. ⁿBy what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:20-21

20 ^oDo not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. ^pEverything is indeed clean, but ^qit is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. 21 ^rIt is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened}

1 Corinthians 10:18-20

18 Consider ^tthe people of Israel: ^{▼▼Greek Consider Israel according to the flesh} ^vare not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that ^wan idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^xthey offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

Revelation of John 2:14

14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of ^yBalaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might ^zeat food sacrificed to idols and ^aapractice sexual immorality.

Revelation of John 2:20

20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^abJezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^{▼▼Greek bondservants} ^adto practice sexual immorality and ^aeto eat food sacrificed to idols.