Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 And after they were silent, James answered, saying, “Men, brothers, hear me.

14 Simeon related how God first visited to take out of the Gentiles a people for His name.

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

16 ‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David that has fallen, and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will set it upright,

17 so that the remnant of men may seek out the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom has been called My name—upon them, says the Lord, doing these things

18 known from the age.’

19 Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles turning to God,

20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from that which is strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses has ones proclaiming him in every city from generations of old, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”