Acts 15:8-20

⁸And God, who knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving to them the Holy Spirit, even as he did to us:

⁹And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁰Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

¹¹But we believe, that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they.

¹²Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought by them among the Gentiles.

¹³And after they held their peace, James answered, saying, Men, brethren, hearken to me.

¹⁴Simeon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for his name.

¹⁵And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

¹⁶After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it; and I will set it up:

¹⁷That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

¹⁸Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

¹⁹Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

²⁰But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.