Acts 15:18-23

¹⁸All His works are known to God from eternity.

¹⁹Therefore I judge that we should not create difficulty for those who are turning to God from among the ethnic nations,

²⁰but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.

²¹For from ancient generations Moses has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

²²Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole congregation, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas (the one called Barsabas) and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

²³They wrote by their hand the following: “The apostles and the elders and the brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.