and the elder brethren send greeting to the Gentile brethren
throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.
015:024 As we have been informed that certain persons who have gone
out from among us have disturbed you by their teaching
and have unsettled your minds, without having received any
such instructions from us;
015:025 we have unanimously decided to select certain men and send them
to you in company with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,
015:026 who have endangered their very lives for the sake of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
015:027 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who are themselves
bringing you the same message by word of mouth.
015:028 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay
upon you no burden heavier than these necessary requirements--
015:029 You must abstain from things sacrificed to idols,
from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication.
Keep yourselves clear of these things, and it will be well
with you. Farewell."
015:030 They, therefore, having been solemnly sent, came down
to Antioch, where they called together the whole assembly
and delivered the letter.
015:031 The people read it, and were delighted with the comfort
it brought them.
015:032 And Judas and Silas, being themselves also Prophets,
gave them a long and encouraging talk, and strengthened them
in the faith.
015:033 After spending some time there they received an affectionate
farewell from the brethren to return to those who had sent them.
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015:035 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and,