Acts 15:13-21 (New International Version)
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When they finished, James1 spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me.
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Simona has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself.2
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The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
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" 'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
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that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things'b3
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that have been known for ages.c4
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"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,5 from sexual immorality,6 from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.7
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For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."8
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