Acts 15:23-29

English Standard Version

²³ with the following letter: ^(A)“The brothers, both ^(B)the apostles and the elders, to the brothers^[a] who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, ^(C)greetings. ²⁴ Since we have heard that ^(D)some persons have gone out from us and ^(E)troubled you^[b] with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, ²⁵ it has seemed good to us, having come ^(F)to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our ^(G)beloved Barnabas and Paul, ^26 (H)men who have ^(I)risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷ We have therefore sent ^(J)Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. ²⁸ For it has seemed good ^(K)to the Holy Spirit and ^(L)to us ^(M)to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: ^29 (N)that you abstain from ^(O)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.”