Acts 15:5-11

⁵Some of the Pharisees' party, however, who had become believers in Christ, came forward and declared that they were bound to circumcise converts and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.

⁶The apostles and the church elders held a meeting to consider this question.

⁷After much discussion, Peter rose and said: “You, my friends, know well that long ago God singled me out — that through my lips the Gentiles should hear the message of the good news, and become believers in Christ.

⁸Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

⁹He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

¹⁰Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

¹¹No, it is through the loving kindness of the Lord Jesus that we, just as they do, believe that we have been saved.”