Acts 15:23-31

²³Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

²⁴Forasmuch as we have heard, that some going out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls; to whom we gave no commandment:

²⁵It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men, and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

²⁶Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

²⁹That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

³⁰They therefore being dismissed, went down to Antioch; and gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle.

³¹Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.