Acts 15:24-31

²⁴Whereas we have heard, that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no command;

²⁵it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to choose men and send them to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

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

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

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

²⁹to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell.”

³⁰They therefore being sent away came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

³¹And when they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.