26men who have risked their lives for the sake of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27So we have sent Judas and Silas, who will also confirm these things by word of mouth.
28It seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to place no greater burden upon you than these necessary things:
29to abstain from things offered to idols, from ‘blood’, from anything strangled and from fornication; it will be in your own best interest to keep away from these things. Farewell.”
30So when they were sent off they came to Antioch, and gathering the crowd they delivered the letter.