22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”

He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel?” (A)

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22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”

“How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel(A) abound?”

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29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.(A) You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.

Farewell.”

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29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.(A) You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

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20 No, but I do say that what they[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!

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Footnotes

  1. 10:20 Other mss read Gentiles

20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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