Acts:15:1-35

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* And some having come down from the Judea , were teaching the brethren : That if not you are circumcised with the rite of Moses not you are able to be saved . * Being therefore a dispute and discussion not a little the Paul and the Barnabas with them , they decided to send up Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem , about the question this . * They indeed therefore having been sent forward by the congregation , passed through the Phenicia and Samaria , narrating the turning of the Gentiles ; and caused joy great to all the brethren . * Having come and into Jerusalem , they were received by the congregation and the apostles and the elders , they related and what things the God did with them . * Stood up and some of those from the sect of the Pharisees having believed , saying : That it is necessary to circumcise them , to command and to keep the law of Moses . * Assembled and the apostles and the elders to see concerning the word this . * Much and debate being , having arisen Peter said to them : Men brethren , you know , that from days former the God among us chose through the mouth of me to hear the Gentiles the word of the glad tidings , and to believe . * And the heart –knowing God testified to them , giving to them the spirit the holy , as even to us ; * and nothing judged between us and also them , by the faith having purified the hearts of them . * Now therefore why do you tempt the God , to place a yoke on the neck of the disciples , which neither the fathers of us nor we were able to bear ? * But through the favor of the Lord Jesus we believe to be saved , in which manner also they . * Was silent and all the multitude , and heard Barnabas and Paul narrating , what did the God signs and prodigies among the Gentiles through them . * After and the to be silent them , answered James , saying : Men brethren , hear you of me . * Simon related , how first the God looked to take out the Gentiles a people for the name of himself . * And with this harmonize the words of the prophets , as it is written : * After these thing I will return and I will build again the tabernacle of David that having fallen down ; and return the ruins of her I will build again , and I will set up her ; * so that may seek the rest of the men the Lord and all the nations , on whom has been called the name of me over them , * says Lord he doing these things known from an age . * Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles turning to the God ; * but to send word to them the to abstain from the pollutions of the idols and the fornication and the strangled and the blood . * Moses for from generations of old in every city those preaching him has , in the synagogues in every sabbath being read . * Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders with whole the congregation , having chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with the Paul and Barnabas , Judas that being called Barsabas , and Silas , men leading among the brethren ; * having written by hand of them thus : The apostles and the elders and the brethren , to those in the Antioch and Syria , and Cilicia brethren , those from Gentiles , health . * Since we have heard , that some from us having gone out troubled you with words , unsettling the souls of you , saying to be circumcised and to keep the law , to whom not we gave command ; * it seemed good to us being of one mind , having chosen out men to send to you , with the beloved of us Barnabas and Paul , * men having given up the lives of them in behalf of the name of the Lord of us Jesus Anointed . * We have sent therefore Judas and Silas , and them through word announcing the same things . * It seemed good for to the holy spirit and to us , no more to lay to you a burden , besides the necessary things these , * to abstain from things offered to idols and blood and strangled and fornication ; from which keeping yourselves , well you will do . Farewell . * They indeed therefore being dismissed went to Antioch ; and having assembled the multitude , delivered the letter . * Having read and , they rejoiced at the exhortation . * Judas and and Silas , also themselves prophets being , through a word great exhorted the brethren , and confirmed . * Having spent and a time , they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those having sent them . * It seemed good but to the Silas to remain there . * Paul but and Barnabas remained in Antioch , teaching and announcing glad tidings , with also others many , the word of the Lord .

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