Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 After Paul and Barnabas had finished speaking, James responded, |Brothers, listen to me:

14 Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

16 |After this, I will come back and set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places and set it up again

17 so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the gentiles who are called by my name,' declares the Lord. 'He is the one who has been doing these things

18 that have been known from long ago.'

19 |Therefore, I have decided that we should not trouble these gentiles who are turning to God.

20 Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood. 21

21 After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues.|