---
title: Acts 15:20
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/acts-15-20/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/acts-15-20.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Acts 15:20
testament: NT
section: Acts
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Acts 15:20

## Text (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.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Blood Transfusions](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/blood-transfusion.md) — Acts 15:28-29 — "Abstain from Blood" [Authority]
- [What Is Still Forbidden?](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/blood-still-forbidden.md) — Four components, whole blood, and the line no verse draws [Authority]