Acts 15:14-24

14 ¹Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them ²a people for his name.

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

16 ³"'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,

17 that the remnant^[a] of mankind ⁴may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles ⁵who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things

18 ⁶known from of old.'

19 Therefore ⁷my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who ⁸turn to God,

20 but should write to them ⁹to abstain from ¹⁰the things polluted by idols, and from ¹¹sexual immorality, and from ¹²what has been strangled, and from ¹³blood.

21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, ¹⁴for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."

The Council's Letter to Gentile Believers

22 Then it seemed good to ¹⁵the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called ¹⁶Barsabbas, and ¹⁷Silas, leading men among ¹⁸the brothers,

23 with the following letter: ¹⁹"The brothers, both ²⁰the apostles and the elders, to the brothers^[b] who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, ²¹greetings.

24 Since we have heard that ²²some persons have gone out from us and ²³troubled you^[c] with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,