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Acts|15:1|-|And certain men |1|came down from |a|Judea and began to teach the |b|brothers, |2c|Unless you are |3d|circumcised according to the |4e|custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
Acts|15:2|-|And when no little |1|dissension and discussion with them came about through Paul and Barnabas, the brothers directed Paul and Barnabas and certain others among them to go up to the apostles and |a|elders in |2b|Jerusalem concerning this question.
Acts|15:3|-|They therefore, having been |a|sent forward by the |1b|church, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail about the turning of the |c|Gentiles; and they brought great joy to all the |d|brothers.
Acts|15:4|-|And when they arrived in Jerusalem, they were |a|received by the |b|church and the apostles and the elders, and they |c|declared the things that God had done with them.
Acts|15:5|-|But certain men from the |a|sect of the |1|Pharisees who had believed rose up from among them, saying, It is |b|necessary to |2|circumcise them and to charge them to |3|keep the |c|law of Moses.
Acts|15:6|-|And the apostles and the elders were |1|gathered together to see about this matter.
Acts|15:7|-|And when much discussion had taken place, Peter rose up and said to them, |1|Men, brothers, you know that from the |2|early days God |a|chose from among you that through my mouth the |b|Gentiles should hear the word of the |c|gospel and believe.
Acts|15:8|-|And God, the Knower of |a|hearts, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy |b|Spirit even |c|as also to us;
Acts|15:9|-|And He made |a|no distinction between us and them, |b|cleansing their |1|hearts by faith.
Acts|15:10|-|Therefore why are you now |a|testing God by placing a |1b|yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts|15:11|-|But we believe that through the |1a|grace of the Lord Jesus we are |b|saved in the same way also as they are.
Acts|15:12|-|And all the multitude became silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul |a|relating all the |b|signs and wonders God had done among the |c|Gentiles through them.
Acts|15:13|-|And when they |1|finished speaking, |a|James answered, saying, |2|Men, brothers, listen to me.
Acts|15:14|-||1|Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles to take out from them a |a|people for His name.
Acts|15:15|-|And with this the words of the prophets agree, even as it is written,
Acts|15:16|-||a|“After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the |1|tabernacle of David which has fallen; and I will rebuild its ruins and erect it again,
Acts|15:17|-|So that the remainder of men may |a|seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles |1|upon whom My |b|name has been called,
Acts|15:18|-|Says the Lord, who is making these things known |1a|from of old.”
Acts|15:19|-|Therefore I judge that we do not harass those from the Gentiles who are |a|turning to God,
Acts|15:20|-|But that we write to them to abstain from the |a|contaminations of |b|idols and |c|fornication and what is strangled and |d|blood.
Acts|15:21|-|For |1|Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who proclaim him in the |2|synagogues, he being |a|read every Sabbath.
Acts|15:22|-|It then seemed good to the apostles and the elders with the whole |a|church to choose men from among them to send to Antioch together with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, who is called |b|Barsabbas, and |c|Silas, leading men among the brothers,
Acts|15:23|-|Writing to them and sending by their hand the following: The apostles and the elder brothers, to the |a|brothers throughout Antioch and |b|Syria and Cilicia who are of the Gentiles, rejoice.
Acts|15:24|-|Since we have heard that certain ones who went out from among us have |a|troubled you with their words, unsettling your souls, to whom we gave no instruction,
Acts|15:25|-|It seemed good to us, having become of |a|one accord, to choose men to send to you together with our |b|beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts|15:26|-|Men who have |1|risked their |2a|lives for the |b|name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts|15:27|-|Therefore we have sent Judas and |a|Silas, who themselves will report the same things by word of mouth.
Acts|15:28|-|For it seemed good to the Holy |a|Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater |b|burden than these necessary things:
Acts|15:29|-|To abstain from things that have been sacrificed to |a|idols and blood and things strangled and fornication, from which if you carefully keep yourselves, you will do well. May you be strong.
Acts|15:30|-|So when they had been sent away, they went down to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they handed them the letter.
Acts|15:31|-|And when they read it, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
Acts|15:32|-|And Judas and Silas, also being |1a|prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers through much speaking and |b|confirmed them.
Acts|15:33|-|And when they had spent some time there, they were sent away with |a|peace from the brothers to those who had sent them.
Acts|15:34|-||1|But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.
Acts|15:35|-|And Paul and Barnabas stayed in |a|Antioch, teaching and |b|announcing the word of the Lord as the gospel with many others also.
Acts|15:36|-|Now after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brothers in |a|every city in which we announced the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing.
Acts|15:37|-|And Barnabas intended to take |a|John, who is called Mark, along with them also;
Acts|15:38|-|But Paul did not consider it suitable to take with them this one who |a|withdrew from them in Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.
Acts|15:39|-|And there was a |1|sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; and Barnabas, taking Mark along, sailed away to |a|Cyprus.
Acts|15:40|-|But Paul chose |a|Silas and |1|went out, having been commended to the |b|grace of the Lord by the brothers.
Acts|15:41|-|And he passed through |a|Syria and Cilicia, |b|confirming the |c|churches.
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