⁶ The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.^(A)

⁷ Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

²⁵ we have decided unanimously to choose men and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

¹⁸ The next day Paul went with us to visit James, and all the elders were present.^(A)

⁴ When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.^(A)

² And the twelve called together the whole community of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.^[a]

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”