Acts 15:14-22

¹⁴Simon has described how God first revealed his concern for the foreigners by taking from them a people committed to him.

¹⁵This is in accordance with the words of the prophets, as it's written,

¹⁶‘In the future I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen house of David; I will rebuild its ruins and set it straight.

¹⁷I will do this so that those who are left may come to the Lord, including the foreigners who call on my name.

¹⁸This is what the Lord says, who revealed these things long ago.’

¹⁹So my decision is that we shouldn't make it difficult for foreigners who turn to God.

²⁰We should write to them and tell them to avoid food sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, meat of animals that have been strangled, and from consuming blood.

²¹For the law of Moses has been taught in every town for a long, long time—it's read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

²²Then the apostles and elders, together with the whole church, decided it would be good to choose some representatives and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers,