Acts 15:25-41 ▼

25 it seemed good to us, being of one accord, having chosen men to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

26 men who have imperiled their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, themselves also proclaiming the same things by speech.

28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no more burden than these necessary things,

29 to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

30 Then indeed they, having been sent away, came down into Antioch, and convening the multitude, they delivered the letter.

31 And having read it, they rejoiced over the consolation.

32 Both Judas and Silas, themselves also being prophets, exhorted the brethren with elaborate speech, and strengthened them;

33 and having spent the time, they were discharged by the brethren with peace back to the apostles who sent them.

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35 And Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, also along with many others.

36 And after many days Paul said to Barnabas, Having returned let us now visit the brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, how they are doing.

37 But Barnabas advised to take with them John, also called Mark.

38 But Paul thought that he would not take with them, him who having departed from them from Pamphylia, and not having gone along with them into the work.

39 But there was a paroxysm, so that they parted from one another, and Barnabas, taking Mark, sailed away into Cyprus.

40 And Paul, having chosen Silas, went out, committed to the grace of the Lord by the brethren;

41 and he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.