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Acts 15:9-25

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9and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye 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, in like manner as they.
12And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles through them.
13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
14Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, 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,
18Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
19Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God;
20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
21For Moses from generations of old hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.
22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23and they wrote thus by them, The apostles and the elders, brethren, unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:
24Forasmuch as we have heard that certain who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls; to whom we gave no commandment;
25it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

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