Acts 15:26-38

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

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

²⁸For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

²⁹to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

³⁰They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude delivered to them the epistle.

³¹And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.

³²And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.

³³And having passed some time there, they were let go in peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

³⁵And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word of the Lord.

³⁶But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, and see how they are getting on.

³⁷And Barnabas proposed to take with them John also, called Mark;

³⁸but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.