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Acts 15:27-35 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.

28. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:

29. that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

30. So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

31. And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

32. And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.

33. And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

35. But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.