rsv Acts:15:23-29 SEEK
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The brethren ,
both the apostles and the elders ,
to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cili '
cia ,
greeting .
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Since we have heard that some persons from us have troubled you with words ,
unsettling your minds ,
although we gave them no instructions ,
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it has seemed good to us ,
having come to one accord ,
to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul ,
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men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ .
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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas ,
who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth .
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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things :
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that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity .
If you keep yourselves from these ,
you will do well .
Farewell ."