Acts 15:25-41 ▼

25 It seemed therfore to vs a good thing, when we were come together with one accorde, to sende chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,

26 Men that haue ieoparded their lyues, for ye name of our Lorde Iesus Christe.

27 We haue sent therefore Iudas and Silas, which shall also tell you ye same thynges by mouth.

28 For it seemed good to the holy ghost, and to vs, to charge you with no more then these necessarie thynges That is to say

29 That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication: From which yf ye kepe your selues, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.

30 Nowe therfore, when they were departed, they came to Antioche, and gathered the multitude together, and delyuered the epistle.

31 Which when they had read, they reioyced of the consolation.

32 And Iudas, and Silas, beyng prophetes, exhorted ye brethren with many wordes, and strengthed them.

33 And after they had taryed there a space, they were let go in peace of the brethren, vnto the Apostles.

34 Notwithstandyng, it pleased Silas to abyde there styll.

35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioche, teachyng and preachyng the worde of the Lorde, with other many.

36 But after a certayne space, Paul sayde vnto Barnabas: Let vs go agayne, and visite our brethren, in euery citie where we haue shewed ye worde of the Lorde, and see howe they do.

37 And Barnabas gaue counsell to take with them Iohn, whose sirname was Marke.

38 But Paul woulde not take hym vnto their companie, which departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the worke.

39 And the contention was so sharpe betwene the, that they departed a sunder, one from the other, and so Barnabas toke Marke, & sayled vnto Cypers.

40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, beyng committed of the brethren vnto the grace of God.

41 And he went through Cyria & Cilicia, stablisshyng the Churches.