Acts 15:20 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
LSV Literal Standard Version
but to write to them to abstain from the defilements of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing, and the blood;
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] lewdness, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
But that we send vnto them, that they abstaine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
But we will write to them that they must keep away from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, and from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
but that we write vnto them that they abstayne them selves from filthynes of ymages from fornicacion from straglyd and from bloude.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
FBV Free Bible Version
We should write to them and tell them to avoid food sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, meat of animals that have been strangled, and from consuming blood.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Sino que se les escriba que se abstengan de las contaminaciones de los ídolos, y de fornicación, y de cosas ahogadas, y de sangre.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Sino escribirles que se aparten de las contaminaciones de los ídolos, y de fornicación, y de ahogado, y de sangre.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Pero mandémosles a decir por carta que se abstengan de comer las carnes sacrificadas a los ídolos, de los vicios sexuales y de comer carnes de animales sin desangrar o ahogados,
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
sino que se les escriba que se abstengan de las contaminaciones de los ídolos, de la relación carnal fuera del matrimonio, de lo estrangulado y de [comer] sangre.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Debemos escribirles y decirles que eviten la comida sacrificada a los ídolos, la inmoralidad sexual, la carne de animales que hayan sido estrangulados, y de consumir sangre.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
sino que les escribamos que se aparten de las cosas contaminadas por los ídolos, de la inmoralidad sexual, de lo estrangulado y de la sangre.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
ἀλλὰ ἐπιστεῖλαι αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἀπέχεσθαι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλισγημάτων τῶν εἰδώλων καὶ τῆς πορνείας καὶ τοῦ πνικτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αἵματος.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
αλλα επιστειλαι αυτοις του απεχεσθαι απο των αλισγηματων των ειδωλων και της πορνειας και του πνικτου και του αιματος.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
ἀλλὰ ἐπιστεῖλαι αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἀπέχεσθαι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλισγημάτων τῶν εἰδώλων καὶ τῆς πορνείας καὶ τοῦ πνικτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αἵματος.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
αλλα επιστειλαι αυτοισ του απεχεσθαι απο των αλισγηματων των ειδωλων και τησ πορνειασ και του πνικτου και του αιματοσ
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
ἀλλὰ ἐπιστεῖλαι αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν ἀλισγημάτων τῶν εἰδώλων καὶ τῆς πορνείας καὶ πνικτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αἵματος.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
ἀλλὰ ἐπιστεῖλαι αὐτοῖς τοῦ ⸀ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν ἀλισγημάτων τῶν εἰδώλων καὶ τῆς πορνείας καὶ ⸀τοῦ πνικτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αἵματος·
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
sed scribere ad eos ut abstineant se a contaminationibus simulacrorum, et fornicatione, et suffocatis, et sanguine.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
но заповѣ́дати и҆̀мъ ѡ҆греба́тисѧ ѿ тре́бъ і҆́дѡльскихъ и҆ ѿ блꙋда̀ и҆ ᲂу҆да́вленины и҆ ѿ кро́ве, и҆ є҆ли̑ка неꙋгѡ́дна себѣ̀ сꙋ́ть, и҆ны̑мъ не твори́ти.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
а написать им, чтобы они воздерживались от оскверненного идолами, от блуда, удавленины и крови, и чтобы не делали другим того, чего не хотят себе.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
αλλά να γράφωμεν προς αυτούς να απέχωσιν από των μιασμάτων των ειδώλων και από της πορνείας και του πνικτού και του αίματος.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
него да им се заповеди да се чувају од прилога идолских и од курварства и од удављеног и од крви, и што њима није мило другима да не чине.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
nego da im se zapovedi da se čuvaju od priloga idolskih i od kurvarstva i od udavljenog i od krvi, i što njima nije milo drugima da ne čine.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
بَلْ يُرْسَلْ إِلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَمْتَنِعُوا عَنْ نَجَاسَاتِ ٱلْأَصْنَامِ، وَٱلزِّنَا، وَٱلْمَخْنُوقِ، وَٱلدَّمِ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC