For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no burden beyond these necessary things:
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26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27We are therefore sending Judas and Silas, who will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no burden beyond these necessary things: 29that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. Keep clear of these and you will do well. Farewell.” 30So they were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the whole company together and delivered the letter.