Acts 15:20-33

²⁰But we will write to them that they must keep away from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, and from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

²¹For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from the ancient times and he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

²²Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, who were leaders of the church, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.

²³They wrote this: “From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings!

²⁴We have heard that certain men have gone out from us, with no orders from us, and have disturbed you with teachings that upset your souls.

²⁵This being so, all of us have agreed to choose men and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

²⁶men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁷Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas, who will tell you the same thing themselves in their own words.

²⁸For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

²⁹that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, it shall be well with you. Farewell.”

³⁰So they, when they were dismissed, came down to Antioch; after they gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

³¹When they had read it, they rejoiced because of the encouragement.

³²Judas and Silas, also prophets, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

³³After they had spent some time there, they were sent away in peace from the brothers to those who had sent them.