18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19. Therefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20. But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21. For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22. Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23. And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greetings unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: