Acts:15:12-31

strkjv@Acts:15:12 @ Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

strkjv@Acts:15:13 @ And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

strkjv@Acts:15:14 @ Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

strkjv@Acts:15:15 @ And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

strkjv@Acts:15:16 @ 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:

strkjv@Acts:15:17 @ 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.

strkjv@Acts:15:18 @ Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

strkjv@Acts:15:19 @ Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

strkjv@Acts:15:20 @ But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

strkjv@Acts:15:21 @ For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

strkjv@Acts:15:22 @ Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

strkjv@Acts:15:23 @ And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:

strkjv@Acts:15:24 @ Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

strkjv@Acts:15:25 @ It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

strkjv@Acts:15:26 @ Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

strkjv@Acts:15:27 @ We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.

strkjv@Acts:15:28 @ For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

strkjv@Acts:15:29 @ That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

strkjv@Acts:15:30 @ So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

strkjv@Acts:15:31 @ Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

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