Acts 15:13-23

¹³And after they held their peace, James answered, saying, Men, brethren, hearken to me.

¹⁴Simeon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for his name.

¹⁵And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

¹⁶After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it; and I will set it up:

¹⁷That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

¹⁸Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

¹⁹Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

²⁰But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.

²¹For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

²²Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas; namely , Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

²³And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles, and elders, and brethren, send greeting to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia.