24. Since we have heard that some, going out from among us, have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment,
25. it pleased us, being assembled as one, to choose men and to send them to you, with our most beloved Barnabas and Paul:
26. men who have handed over their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27. Therefore, we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, with the spoken word, reaffirm to you the same things.
28. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose no further burden upon you, other than these necessary things:
29. that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell."