Acts 15:25-33

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.