Acts 15:9-21

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.

¹²And all the multitude became silent, and listened to Barnabas and Paul, while they related what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the gentiles by them.

¹³And after they had done speaking, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken to me.

¹⁴Simeon hath related how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

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

¹⁶“After this I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which hath fallen; and I will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up;

¹⁷that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, and all the gentiles, who have been called by my name, saith the Lord, who doeth these things,

¹⁸which were known from the beginning.”

¹⁹Wherefore my judgment is, that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;

²⁰but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

²¹For Moses from the times of old hath had in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.