Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 And after they were silent, James answered and said: Brethren, hear me;

14 Simeon has declared how God, at the first, did visit the Gentiles, in order to take out from among them a people for his name.

15 And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

16 After this I will return, and build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up;

17 that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name has been called, says the Lord, who does all these things.

18 Known to God from eternity are all his works.

19 For these reasons, my judgment is, that we give no trouble to those who, from among the Gentiles, have turned to God;

20 but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

21 For, from ancient times, Moses has, in every city, those who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath-day.