to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the emissaries and elders who were at Yerushalayim.
But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.*
*For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra'el. After those days,* says the Lord; *I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.