Acts 15:7–21

⁷And when there had been much ^edisputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that ^pa good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. ⁸And God, ^qwhich knoweth the hearts, ^rbare them witness, ^sgiving them the Holy Ghost, ^teven as he did unto us; ⁹and ^uput no difference between us and them, ^xpurifying their hearts ^yby faith. ¹⁰Now therefore why ^ztempt ye God, ^ato put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? ¹¹But we believe that ^bthrough 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, ^cdeclaring what ^dmiracles and wonders ^eGod had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

¹³And after they had held their peace, ^fJames answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: ^14gSimeon ^hhath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. ¹⁵And to this agree the words of ⁱthe prophets; as it is written, ¹⁶After this I will return, and ^kwill build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: ¹⁷that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. ¹⁸Known unto God are all his works ^lfrom the beginning of the world. ¹⁹Wherefore ^mmy sentence is, that we ⁿtrouble not them, which from among the Gentiles ^oare turned to God: ²⁰but that we write unto them, that they abstain from ^ppollutions of idols, and from ^qfornication, and from ^rthings strangled, and from ^rblood. ²¹For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, ^sbeing read in the synagogues every sabbath day.