For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.
Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
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