Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 After they had done speaking, James assum'd the discourse, and said, my brethren, give me your attention.

14 Simon has related how God began to visit the Gentiles, to chuse from among them a people consecrated to his name.

15 and this is agreeable to the oracles of the prophets: as it is written,

16 "after this I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down:

17 I will repair its ruins, and raise it up: that the rest of mankind, even all the nations, that profess my name, may seek the Lord.

18 he that does all these things, is the Lord himself that has said it." for the works of God are all known to him from the beginning of the world.

19 wherefore my opinion is not to disquiet the Gentile converts: but only to write to them,

20 that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.

21 for as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.