"{Which} when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. {consolation: or, exhortation}" — Acts 15:31

Acts 15:31 · KJV

“{Which} when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. {consolation: or, exhortation}”

— Acts 15:31

So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

Verse 32

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed {them}.

Acts 15 — Context

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

{Which} when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. {consolation: or, exhortation}

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed {them}.

And after they had tarried {there} a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

Cross References

Galatians 2:4-5

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Acts 15:1

And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, {and said}, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Acts 16:5

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.