The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message.
Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?
So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.
Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.
So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—