Acts 15:10-21

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

¹¹But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they were.”

¹²All the multitude kept silent while they listened to Barnabas and Paul report the signs and wonders God had worked among the Gentiles through them.

¹³After they stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brothers, listen to me.

¹⁴Simon has told how God first graciously helped the Gentiles in order to take from them a people for his name.

¹⁵The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

¹⁶'After these things I will return, and I will build again the tent of David, which has fallen down; I will set up and restore its ruins again,

¹⁷so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, including all the Gentiles called by my name.'

¹⁸This is what the Lord says, who has done these things that have been known from ancient times.

¹⁹Therefore, my opinion is, that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God.

²⁰But we will write to them that they must keep away from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, and from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

²¹For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from the ancient times and he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”