Acts 15:12-27

¹²And all the people were quiet while Barnabas and Paul gave an account of the signs and wonders which God had done among the Gentiles by them.

¹³And when they had come to an end, James, answering, said, My brothers, give ear to me:

¹⁴Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

¹⁵And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,

¹⁶After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:

¹⁷So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,

¹⁸Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

¹⁹For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

²⁰But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

²¹For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

²²Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:

²³And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you:

²⁴Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

²⁵It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

²⁶Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁷And so we have sent Judas and Silas, who will say the same things to you themselves, by word of mouth.