Acts 15:22-29

The Council's Letter to Gentile Believers

22 Then it seemed good to ¹the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called ²Barsabbas, and ³Silas, leading men among ⁴the brothers,

23 with the following letter: ⁵"The brothers, both ⁶the apostles and the elders, to the brothers^[a] who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, ⁷greetings.

24 Since we have heard that ⁸some persons have gone out from us and ⁹troubled you^[b] with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,

25 it has seemed good to us, having come ¹⁰to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our ¹¹beloved Barnabas and Paul,

26 ¹²men who have ¹³risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 We have therefore sent ¹⁴Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.

28 For it has seemed good ¹⁵to the Holy Spirit and ¹⁶to us ¹⁷to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:

29 ¹⁸that you abstain from ¹⁹what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."