Acts 15:13-21 ▼

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

14 Simeon hath declared, howe God first did visite the Gentiles, to take of them a people vnto his Name.

15 And to this agree the woordes of the Prophets, as it is written,

16 After this I will returne, and will builde againe the tabernacle of Dauid, which is fallen downe, and the ruines thereof will I build againe, and I will set it vp,

17 That the residue of men might seeke after the Lorde, and all the Gentiles vpon whom my Name is called, saith the Lorde which doeth all these things.

18 From the beginning of the worlde, God knoweth all his workes.

19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them of the Gentiles that are turned to God,

20 But that we send vnto them, that they absteine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses of olde time hath in euery citie them that preache him, seeing he is read in the Synagogues euery Sabbath day.