And reading it, they rejoiced at the comfort.
And some, coming down from Judea, were teaching the brothers, saying, If you are not circumcised in the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.
Now, therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we had strength to bear?
Then they indeed being let go, they came to Antioch. And having assembled the multitude, they delivered the letter.
And Judas and Silas, themselves also being prophets, exhorted the brothers through much speech, and confirmed them.
Therefore, indeed, the assemblies were being made stronger in the faith, and increased in number according to a day.
Therefore stand firm in the freedom with which Christ made us free and do not be held again with a yoke of slavery.
For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, and who glory in Christ Jesus, and who do not trust in flesh.