Acts:15:13-21

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* And after they had held their peace , James answered , saying , Men and brethren , hearken unto me : * Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles , to take out of them a people for his name . * And to this agree the words of the prophets ; as it is written , * After this I will return , and will build again the tabernacle of David , which is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins thereof , and I will set it up : * That 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 . * Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world . * Wherefore my sentence is , that we trouble not them , which from among the Gentiles are turned to God : * But that we write unto them , that they abstain from pollutions of idols , and from fornication , and from things strangled , and from blood . * For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him , being read in the synagogues every sabbath day .

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