Acts 15:10-21

¹⁰Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

¹¹But through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe that we will be saved in the same manner as they.”

¹²Then all the multitude stopped speaking and listened to Barnabas and Paul telling as many signs and wonders as God had done among the Gentiles through them.

¹³Now after they had finished speaking, James answered, saying, “Men and brothers, listen to me:

¹⁴Simeon has related how God first visited them to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

¹⁵And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:

¹⁶‘After this I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen; and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

¹⁷in order that the rest of men may seek out the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does all these things.’

¹⁸“Known from everlasting to God are all His works.

¹⁹Therefore I judge that we must not cause trouble for those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles;

²⁰but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

²¹For Moses has had from ancient generations those who proclaim him in each city, being read in the synagogues from one Sabbath to another.”