Stay away from every form of evil.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.