Blood Transfusions

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.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. — read the full passage →

For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men: — read the full passage →

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.

And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. — read the full passage →

And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. — read the full passage →

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. — read the full passage →

thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: