Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 Now after they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brothers, listen to me.

14 Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

15 And with this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

16 ‘AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE FALLEN BOOTH OF DAVID, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT,

17 SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,’

18 SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

19 Therefore I judge that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.

21 For from ancient generations, Moses has those who preach him in every city, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”