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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
savoir, de vous abstenir des viandes sacrifiées aux idoles, du sang, des animaux étouffés, et de l'impudicité, choses contre lesquelles vous vous trouverez bien de vous tenir en garde. Adieu.
KJV
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.
Ratramnus
Against the Objections of the Greeks Book Four
sacrificed to idols, etc. And in conclusion: If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well." (Acts 15:28-29) Who cannot see the different religious practices? To possess nothing of one's own but to live communally versus retaining all personal property and being bound by on…
Pacian of Barcelona
Exhortatory Little Book to Repentance
, from blood, and from fornication; from which if you keep yourselves, you will do well. Farewell" Acts 15:28-29. This is the entire conclusion of the New Testament. The Holy Spirit, despised in many things, has left us this condition of mortal danger. Other sins are healed b…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
r. Now fornication comes under the same head as things that are not mortal sins: for it is written ( Acts 15:29 ): "That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication." But there is not mortal sin in these observances…
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