Bible verse
When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.
Acts 15:31 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 15.
27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to tell you in person the same things we are writing.
28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements:
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.
31 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.
34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
35 But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, along with many others, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord.
KJV
[Which] when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
ASV
And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.
ERV
And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.
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