The Letter to the Gentiles

Grace and the Council · Acts 15

Story guide: The letter explains the church’s agreement, commends the messengers, and sets out the necessary instructions for Gentile believers.

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23Having written by their hand: “The apostles and the elder brothers, to the brothers from among the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.”

24Since we have heard that some went out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, to whom we gave no instructions,

25it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

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

27Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will report the same things by word of mouth.

28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to place on you no greater burden than these necessary things:

29to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.

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