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Acts - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- And certain men came down from Judaea and taught the brethren, `saying', Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
- And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, `the brethren' appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
- They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
- And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and the apostles and the elders, and they rehearsed all things that God had done with them.
- But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.
- And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.
- And when there had been much questioning, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
- And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
- and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.
- And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles through them.
- And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
- Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
- And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
- After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:
- That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,
- Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
- Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God;
- but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
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