Acts 15:24-29

²⁴Listen, we heard that some men from here went to you and told you things that really upset you. But we didn’t send those men.

²⁵So we met together and picked some messengers, and we are sending them with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul.

²⁶You know, Barnabas and Paul work for our leader Jesus Christ and people tried to kill them for doing that.

²⁷We are sending Judas and Silas with them, and they will tell you the same things that we are writing in this letter.

²⁸The Holy Spirit told us that you don’t need to get that young man’s operation. That’s the way we think, too. So we are telling you to just follows these rules, –

²⁹If somebody gives food to a sacred statue, don’t you eat any of that food. – And don’t eat blood. – And if somebody strangles an animal, don’t eat its meat. – And don’t sleep with people that you are not married to, as if they are they are your wives or husbands. Make sure you don’t do those things, and you will be all right. That’s our message to you now. Goodbye.”