Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 And after they became silent, James responded, saying, Men, brethren, hear me.

14 Symeon hath related how God in the first place interposed to take a people from the Gentiles, in His name.

15 And to this corresponds the words of the prophet; as has been written,

16 After these things I will return, and will build again the throne of David, which has fallen down; and will build again the ruins of the same, and will set it up again:

17 in order that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles, on whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, who doeth these things

18 known from the beginning.

19 Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God:

20 but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

21 For Moses from ancient generations, has those preaching him in every city, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.