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Acts 15:2-18

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2This brought Paul and Barnabas into a sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas along with some others from among them were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles and elders about this question.
3They therefore, being sent by the church, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria and announced the conversion of the Gentiles. They brought great joy to all the brothers.
4When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things that God had done with them.
5But certain men who believed, who belonged to the group of Pharisees, stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
6So the apostles and the elders gathered together to consider this matter.
7After much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8God, who knows the heart, witnesses to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us;
9and he made no distinction between us and them, making their hearts clean by faith.
10Now therefore why do you test God, that you should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they were.”
12All the multitude kept silent while they listened to Barnabas and Paul report the signs and wonders God had worked among the Gentiles through them.
13After they stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brothers, listen to me.
14Simon has told how God first graciously helped the Gentiles in order to take from them a people for his name.
15The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,
16'After these things I will return, and I will build again the tent of David, which has fallen down; I will set up and restore its ruins again,
17so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, including all the Gentiles called by my name.'
18This is what the Lord says, who has done these things that have been known from ancient times.

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