◄ Acts 15:6 ►
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Good News Translation
The apostles and the elders met together to consider this question.

New Revised Standard Version
The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter.

Contemporary English Version
The apostles and church leaders met to discuss this problem about Gentiles.

New American Bible
The apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.

Acts 15:25 It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.

Acts 21:18 And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all the ancients were assembled.

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Hebrews 13:7,17 Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, . . .

Context
The Council at Jerusalem
5But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses. 6And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter. 7And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.…
Cross References
Acts 11:30
Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 15:2
And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of the other side should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem, about this question.

Acts 15:4
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God had done with them.

Acts 15:22
Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole church, to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren.

Acts 16:4
And as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them the decrees for to keep, that were decreed by the apostles and ancients who were at Jerusalem.

Acts 15:5
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