Acts 15:4-11

⁴And having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they related what great things God had wrought with them.

⁵But there rose up certain believers of the sect of the Pharisees, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

⁶And the apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.

⁷And after much debate, Peter rose up and said to them, Brethren, ye know that a long time ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the glad tidings, and believe.

⁸And God, who knoweth the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it to us;

⁹and made no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

¹⁰Now therefore why do ye provoke the anger of God, by putting 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, in the same manner as they.