In this scripture the apostles issued the following edict: “The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. ”
सदर वृत्तपत्रात प्रेषितांची कृत्ये १५: २८, २९ उद्धृत करून यहोवाच्या साक्षीदारांची भूमिका या वचनावर आधारित आहे असे सांगण्यात आले.