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The apostles
and elders, your brothers,
To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria
and Cilicia: Greetings. We have heard that some went out from us
without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by
what they said.
So we all agreed to choose some men and send
them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul-
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Therefore
we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are
writing. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you
with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain
from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled
animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these
things.
Farewell.
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