The people read it and rejoiced over its encouragement.
Now some men coming down from Judea were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Why then do you put God to the test by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples—which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch; and when they had gathered the whole group together, they delivered the letter.
Judah and Silas, prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and sisters with a long message and strengthened them.
So Messiah’s communities were strengthened in the faith and kept increasing daily in number.
For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.
For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship by the Ruach Elohim and glory in Messiah Yeshua and have not depended on the flesh—
