Acts 15:17-27

17 ¹SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES ²WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'

18 ³SAYS THE LORD, WHO ⁴MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

19 "Therefore it is ⁵my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from ⁶things contaminated by idols and from ⁷fornication and from ⁸what is strangled and from blood.

21 "For ⁹Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

22 Then it seemed good to ¹⁰the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to ¹¹Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -Judas called Barsabbas, and ¹²Silas, leading men among ¹³the brethren,

23 and they sent this letter by them, "¹⁴The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to ¹⁵the brethren in ¹⁶Antioch and ¹⁷Syria and ¹⁸Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, ¹⁹greetings.

24 "Since we have heard that ²⁰some of our number to whom we gave no instruction have ²¹disturbed you with their words, unsettling your souls,

25 ²² it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

26 men who have ²³risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 "Therefore we have sent ²⁴Judas and ²⁵Silas, who themselves will also report the same things by word of mouth.

Cross References

• 1. Amos 9:12
• 2. Deuteronomy 28:10; Isaiah 63:19; Jeremiah 14:9; Daniel 9:19; James 2:7
• 3. Amos 9:12
• 4. Isaiah 45:21
• 5. Acts 15:28; Acts 21:25
• 6. Exodus 34:15-17; Daniel 1:8; Acts 15:29; 1 Corinthians 8:7, 13; 1 Corinthians 10:7f, 14-28; Revelation 2:14, 20
• 7. Leviticus 18:6-23
• 8. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, 14; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23; Deuteronomy 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:33
• 9. Acts 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14
• 10. Acts 15:2
• 11. Acts 11:20
• 12. Acts 15:27, 32, 40; Acts 16:19, 25, 29; Acts 17:4, 10, 14; Acts 18:5; 2 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Peter 5:12
• 13. Acts 15:1
• 14. Acts 15:2
• 15. Acts 15:1
• 16. Acts 11:20
• 17. Matthew 4:24; Acts 15:41; Galatians 1:21
• 18. Acts 6:9
• 19. Acts 23:26; James 1:1; 2 John 10
• 20. Acts 15:1
• 21. Galatians 1:7; Galatians 5:10
• 22. Acts 15:28
• 23. Acts 9:23f; Acts 14:19
• 24. Acts 15:22, 32
• 25. Acts 15:22

Footnotes

• [a] Gr "anthropoi"
• [b] Lit "upon whom My name is called"
• [c] Or "does these things" which were "known"
• [d] Lit "the pollutions of"
• [e] I.e. the books of Moses, Gen through Deut
• [f] Lit "wrote by their hand"
• [g] Lit "from us"
• [h] Or "met together"
• [i] Lit "given over"