When the people read it, they were delighted with the exhortation.
Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.”
Why, then, are you now putting God to the test by placing on the shoulders of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
And so they were sent on their journey. Upon their arrival in Antioch they called the assembly together and delivered the letter.
Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, exhorted and strengthened the brothers with many words.
Day after day the churches grew stronger in faith and increased in number. Through Asia Minor.
For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
For we are the circumcision, we who worship through the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus and do not put our confidence in flesh,