Acts Chapter 15
Acts is the 44th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Acts 15:1 to Acts 15:9.
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Acts 15:1
Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
Acts 15:2
And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
Acts 15:3
Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.
Acts 15:4
When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
Acts 15:5
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses."
Acts 15:6
The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.
Acts 15:7
After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:8
"And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;
Acts 15:9
and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:10
"Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Acts 15:11
"But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."
Acts 15:12
All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 15:13
After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Brethren, listen to me.
Acts 15:14
"Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.
Acts 15:15
"With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,
Acts 15:16
'AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT,
Acts 15:17
SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'
Acts 15:18
SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.
Acts 15:19
"Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.
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