Acts 15:15-24

¹⁵And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:

¹⁶‘After this I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen; and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

¹⁷in order that the rest of men may seek out the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does all these things.’

¹⁸“Known from everlasting to God are all His works.

¹⁹Therefore I judge that we must not cause trouble for those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles;

²⁰but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

²¹For Moses has had from ancient generations those who proclaim him in each city, being read in the synagogues from one Sabbath to another.”

²²Then it seemed best to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to send men being chosen from them to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

²³Writing by their hand these things: The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia who are of the Gentiles: Greetings.

²⁴Inasmuch as we have heard that some went out from among us and troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “that you must be circumcised and keep the law”—to whom we gave no such command—