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Acts 21:25
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Acts 21:25
25As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
25As touching the Gentiles which beleeue, *wee haue written and concluded, that they obserue no such thing, saue onely that they keepe themselues from things offered to idoles, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
- Chap. 15.20.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 21:25
Concerning or regarding; also coming into physical contact.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Persons of the nations; in the New Testament, persons distinguished from Jews.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded of; to trust or place confidence in.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Shut; ended; finished; determined; inferred; comprehended; stopped, or bound.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To watch, heed, keep, perform, or treat with due regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Of the kind, degree, or character already named or indicated.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Presented for acceptance or rejection; presented in worship or sacrifice; or set before the eye or mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Images or objects of false worship; figuratively, false objects of trust or devotion.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Choked; suffocated; suppressed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
fornication
Sexual intercourse outside lawful marriage; sexual uncleanness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 25
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Open the full verse study29That 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.
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Open the full verse study19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
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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