Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 And when they helde their peace, Iames aunswered, saying: Men and brethren, hearken vnto me.

14 Simeon tolde, howe God at the begynnyng dyd visite, to receaue of the gentiles, a people in his name.

15 And to this agree the wordes of the prophetes, as it is written:

16 After this I wyll returne, and wyll buylde agayne the tabernacle of Dauid, which is fallen downe: and that which is fallen in decay of it, wyll I buylde agayne, and I wyll set it vp:

17 That the residue of men myght seke after the Lorde, and all the gentiles vpon whom my name is called, sayth the Lorde, which doth all these thynges.

18 Knowen vnto God are all his workes from the begynnyng of the worlde.

19 Wherfore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the gentiles, are turned to God:

20 But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moyses of olde tyme, hath in euery citie, them that preache hym in the synagogues, when he is read euery Sabboth day.