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Acts 15:31

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29 You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter.

When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.

32 Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.

33 After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers in peace to return to those who had sent them.

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BSB
When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.
KJV
Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
WEB
When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
ASV
And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.
DARBY
And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.
BLB
And having read [it], they rejoiced at the encouragement.
ÅB
Da de hadde lest det, ble de glade over trøsten de fikk.
OTB
Folket leste det og gledet seg over dets oppmuntrende budskap.
B1930
Da de hadde lest det, blev de glade over trøsten de fikk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Galatians 2:4–5

    This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

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  • Galatians 5:1

    It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

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  • Philippians 3:3

    For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

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  • Acts 15:1

    Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

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  • Acts 15:10

    Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

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  • Acts 16:5

    So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.

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