Acts 15:13-21 ▼

13 After they were silent, James answered, |Brothers, listen to me.

14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

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

17 that the rest of humanity may seek after the Lord, and all the nations who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things

18 known from long ago.'

19 |Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those from among the non-Jewish people who turn to God,

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

21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who proclaim him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.|