Drinking blood

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• Leviticus 17:11

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

• Acts 15:20

  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

• Genesis 9:3–4

  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

• Genesis 9:4

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

• Leviticus 17:14

  For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for 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.

• Hebrews 9:22

  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

• Leviticus 17:10

  And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

• Acts 15:29

  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• John 6:53

  Then Jesus 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 no life in you.

• Deuteronomy 12:23

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

• Leviticus 19:26

  Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

• 1 John 1:7

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

• Ephesians 1:7

  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

• Genesis 9:3–8

  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. …

• Luke 22:20

  Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

• Leviticus 3:17

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

• Matthew 26:28

  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

• Leviticus 7:26

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

• Deuteronomy 12:16

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

• Leviticus 17:1–16

  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying, What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, …

• Hebrews 10:19

  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

• Revelation 12:11

  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

• Hebrews 13:12

  Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

• Revelation 16:6

  For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

• Leviticus 17:10–14

  And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 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. …

• Acts 21:25

  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

• Hebrews 9:14

  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• Romans 5:9

  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

• Revelation 1:5

  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

• Leviticus 17:12

  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.

• Acts 15:1–41

  And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. …

• John 6:54

  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

• Genesis 9:6

  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

• Ephesians 2:13

  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

• Colossians 1:20

  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

• Leviticus 17:2

  Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,

• Ezekiel 33:25

  Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

• Leviticus 17:5

  To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.

• 1 Peter 1:18–19

  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: