Acts 15:13-22

¹³When they had finished speaking, James declared, “Brothers, listen to me!

¹⁴Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

¹⁵The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

¹⁶‘After this I will return and rebuild

the fallen tent of David.

Its ruins I will rebuild,

and I will restore it,

¹⁷so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,

and all the Gentiles who are called by My name,

says the Lord who does these things

¹⁸that have been known for ages.’

¹⁹It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

²⁰Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

²¹For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

²²Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,

— Acts 15:13-22

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Cross References for Acts 15:13-22

• Amos 9:11-12
• Zechariah 2:11
• Zechariah 8:20-23
• Isaiah 65:1
• Hosea 2:23
• Ephesians 1:4
• Ephesians 3:9
• Acts 15:29
• Revelation 2:20
• Isaiah 46:9-10

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