Study it in the app“But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.””
Butδὲas forπερὶthe nationsἐθνῶνwho have believed,τῶν πεπιστευκότωνweἡμεῖςwrote,ἀπεστείλαμενhaving decidedκρίναντεςthattheyαὐτοὺςshould guard themselves againstφυλάσσεσθαιbothτεwhat has been sacrificed to idolsτό εἰδωλόθυτονandκαὶbloodαἷμαandκαὶwhat is strangledπνικτὸνandκαὶsexual immorality.”πορνείαν
Gentile
The peoples who are not Israel.
Where else “ethnōn” appearstrust
To trust in God or in Jesus.
Where else “pepisteukotōn” appearssend off
To send something, or send someone away.
Where else “apesteilamen” appearsdecide
To make up one's mind, or think something is so.
Where else “krinantes” appearsprotect
To shield from evil, or beware of something.
Where else “phylassesthai” appearsfood offered to idols
What has been sacrificed to an idol, especially meat.
Where else “eidōlothyton” appearsblood
The red fluid that runs through the bodies of people and animals.
Where else “haima” appearsstrangled
Strangled: an animal killed without draining its blood.
Where else “pnikton” appearssexual immorality
Having sex outside marriage.
Where else “porneian” appears24Take these men, purify yourself with them, and pay the expenses for them so that they may shave their head, and all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk in order, keeping the law.
25 · This verse (above)
26Then Paul took the men, and on the next day, having purified himself with them, he went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification until the offering was presented for each of them.
1. What it says
What does the prophet Agabus do, and what do the believers who hear him ask of Paul? (vv. 10-12)
2. What it means
What does Paul answer those who weep to keep him from going up to Jerusalem, and how do they react? (vv. 13-14)
3. How I live it
Paul's friends wanted to protect him, but in the end said "The Lord's will be done" (v. 14). When is it hard for you to let someone you love go?
