A Letter Is Sent To Clear Up The Issue And Encourage The Gentile Believers

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, along with the whole church, that having chosen men from-among them they should send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas— Judas (the one being called Barsabbas) and Silas, leading men among the brothers, ²³ having written by their hand:

“The apostles and the elders, your brothers, to the brothers from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. ²⁴ Because we heard that some having gone out from us disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls— to whom we did not give-orders— ²⁵ it seemed good to us, having become of-one-accord, having chosen men, that we should send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul— ²⁶ men^[a] having handed-over their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷ Therefore we have sent-forth Judas and Silas; they also will be declaring the same things by spoken word. ²⁸ For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to be laying-on you no greater burden except these essentials^[b]: ²⁹ that you be abstaining from foods-sacrificed-to-idols, and blood, and strangled things, and sexual immorality; keeping yourselves from which things, you will do well. Farewell”.