Acts 15:23-29

²³Writing by their hand these things: The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia who are of the Gentiles: Greetings.

²⁴Inasmuch as we have heard that some went out from among us and troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “that you must be circumcised and keep the law”—to whom we gave no such command—

²⁵it seemed best to us, being like-minded, to send chosen men to you, with our beloved brothers Barnabas and Paul,

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

²⁷We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

²⁸For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to put on you no greater burden except for these necessary things:

²⁹that you abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality; from which keeping yourselves back, you will do well. Farewell.