Acts 15:26-32

²⁶men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ —

²⁷we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.

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

²⁹to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

³⁰They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,

³¹and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;

³²Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,