Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 and after they were silent, James answered, saying, “Men, brothers, listen to me:

14 Simeon expounded how at first God looked on [us] to take a people out of [the] nations for His Name,

15 and to this the words of the Prophets agree, as it has been written:

16 After these things I will return, || And I will rebuild the dwelling place of David that has fallen down, || And I will rebuild its ruins, || And will set it upright—

17 That the remnant of men may seek after the LORD, || And all the nations on whom My Name has been called, || Says the LORD, who is doing all these things.

18 Known from the ages to God are all His works.

19 For this reason I judge: not to trouble those who turn back to God from the nations,

20 but to write to them to abstain from the defilements of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing, and the blood;

21 for Moses has those preaching him from former generations in every city—being read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”