◄ Acts 15:28 ►
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Good News Translation
The Holy Spirit and we have agreed not to put any other burden on you besides these necessary rules:

New Revised Standard Version
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials:

Contemporary English Version
The Holy Spirit has shown us that we should not place any extra burden on you.

New American Bible
‘It is the decision of the holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

it.

John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.

1 Corinthians 7:25,40 Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:37 If any seem to be a prophet or spiritual, let him know the things that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

greater.

Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

Revelation 2:24 And to the rest who are at Thyatira: Whosoever have not this doctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say: I will not put upon you any other burthen.

Context
The Letter to the Gentile Believers
…27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things. 28For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things: 29That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.…
Cross References
Acts 5:32
And we are witnesses of these things: and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all that obey him.

Acts 15:8
And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us:

Acts 15:19
For which cause, judge that they who from among the Gentiles are converted to God are not to be disquieted:

Acts 15:25
It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

Acts 16:4
And as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them the decrees for to keep, that were decreed by the apostles and ancients who were at Jerusalem.

Revelation 2:24
And to the rest who are at Thyatira: Whosoever have not this doctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say: I will not put upon you any other burthen.

Acts 15:27
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