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27-29 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay no greater burden of Jewish laws on you than to abstain from eating food offered to idols and from unbled meat of strangled animals,[a] and, of course, from fornication. If you do this, it is enough. Farewell.”

30 The four messengers went at once to Antioch, where they called a general meeting of the Christians and gave them the letter.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:27 and from unbled meat of strangled animals, literally, “and from blood.”

28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit(A) and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.(B) You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.

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