Acts 15:7-9 ▼

7 After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and told them, |Brothers, you know that in the early days, God chose me to be the one among you through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

8 God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

9 He made no distinction between them and us, because of their faith-cleansed hearts.