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¶ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and] concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
I Tertius, who wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the Lord.
¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though [it were] but for a season.
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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