Acts 15:23-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

²⁴ Forasmuch as we have heard, that some going out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls; to whom we gave no commandment:

²⁵ It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men, and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

²⁶ Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

²⁸ For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

²⁹ That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.