Acts 15:23-31

Coverdale(i) 23 and gaue the letters in their handes after this maner: We the Apostles and Elders & brethren, wysh health vnto the brethre of the Heythe which are at Antioche, and Syria and Celicia. 24 For so moch as we haue herde that certayne of oures are departed, and haue troubled you, and combred youre myndes, sayenge: ye must be circumcysed, and kepe ye lawe (to whom we gaue no soch commaundemet) 25 it semed good vnto vs, beynge gathered together with one accorde, to chose out men, and to sende them vnto you, with oure beloued Barnabas and Paul, 26 men that haue ioperded their lyues for ye name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. 27 Therfore haue we sent Iudas and Sylas, which shal also tell you the same with wordes. 28 For it pleased the holy goost and vs, to laye no charge vpon you, more then these necessary poyntes: 29 That ye absteyne from the offeringes of Idols, and from bloude, and from strangled, and from whordome. From the which yf ye absteyne youre selues, ye shal do well. Fare ye well. 30 Whan these were sent forth, they came vnto Antioche, and gathered the multitude together, and delyuered the epistle. 31 Whan they had red it, they were glad of that cosolacion.