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1Then some men came down from Judea and started teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
2Well this provoked serious dissension and argument between Paul and Barnabas and them, so Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with certain others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
3So being sent on their way by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brothers.
4Upon arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the congregation and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
5But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.”
6So the apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.
7When there had been plenty of discussion, Peter got up and said to them: “Men, brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the message of the Gospel and believe.
8And the heart-knowing God acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us;
9and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
11Rather, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they.”
12Then the whole assembly kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the ethnic nations through them.
13Now when they finished, James reacted saying: “Men, brothers, listen to me.
14Simeon has described how God first intervened to extract from the Gentiles a people for His name.
15And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
16‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild David's tent, the fallen one; yes, I will rebuild its ruins and restore it;
17so that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles—the ones, that is, upon whom my name has been called—says the Lord who does all these things.’
18All His works are known to God from eternity.
19Therefore I judge that we should not create difficulty for those who are turning to God from among the ethnic nations,
20but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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