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Since we have heard that certain persons who have gone out from us, though with no instructions from us, have said things to disturb you and have unsettled your minds,
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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."
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So they were sent off and went down to Antioch. When they gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
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When its members read it, they rejoiced at the exhortation.
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Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.
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After they had been there for some time, they were sent off in peace by the believers to those who had sent them.