Acts 21:23-25
23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. 24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law. 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Paul was falsely accused, so he went with those who would show his sincerity and right living by association. As for the non-Jews, they were instructed not to follow the law, except in regards to idols, earring blood in meat (unhealthy), from animals strangled (with blood also), and from all forms of sexual immorality (adultery, fornication, other deviate behavior). We are to honor God, not the rules meant to teach us how to honor from the heart.
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