Acts 15:25-35

25 we have unanimously decided to select men and send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

26 who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will personally report the same things by word of mouth.^[a]

28 For it was the Holy Spirit's decision-and ours-to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.

The Outcome of the Jerusalem Letter

30 Then, being sent off, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.

31 When they read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

32 Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and strengthened them with a long message.

33 After spending some time there, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.^{[b] [c]}

35 But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the message of the Lord.