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But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.

And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

But all these things will they do unto you for my name"s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.