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we have decided unanimously to choose representatives and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
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who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.
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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials:
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that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.