Acts 15:13-25

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.

²¹For from ancient generations Moses has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

²²Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole congregation, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas (the one called Barsabas) and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

²³They wrote by their hand the following: “The apostles and the elders and the brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.

²⁴Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the Law—to whom we gave no such authorization—

²⁵it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,