When the people read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers: “If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Now then, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
So when these men had been sent off, they went to Antioch, and after gathering the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
Then Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in number every day.
Stand fast therefore in the freedom for which Christ has set us free, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For we are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh,