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When thereforePaulandBarnabashadnosmalldissensionanddisputationwiththem, they determined that PaulandBarnabas,andcertainotherofthem, should go uptoJerusalemunto the apostlesandeldersaboutthisquestion.
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Andbeing brought on their wayby the church, they passed throughPheniceandSamaria,declaring the conversion of the Gentiles:and they causedgreatjoy unto all the brethren.
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And when they were cometoJerusalem, they were receivedof the church,and of the apostlesandelders,and they declared all things that God had donewiththem.
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But there rose upcertainof the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcisethem,and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
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And when there had beenmuchdisputing,Peter rose up, and saiduntothem,Men and brethren,yeknow how that a goodwhileagoGod made choiceamongus, that the Gentilesbymymouth should hear the word of the gospel,andbelieve.
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Afterthis I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David,which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruinsthereof,and I will setitup:
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Then pleased it the apostlesandelders,with the wholechurch, to sendchosenmenof their own companytoAntiochwithPaulandBarnabas; namely, JudassurnamedBarsabas,andSilas,chiefmenamong the brethren:
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And they wrote letters bythemafter this manner; The apostlesandeldersandbrethren send greeting unto the brethrenwhich are of the GentilesinAntiochandSyriaandCilicia:
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Forasmuch as we have heard, thatcertain which went outfromus have troubledyou with words,subvertingyoursouls,saying, Ye must be circumcised, andkeep the law: to whom we gaveno such commandment:
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That ye abstain from meats offered to idols,and from blood,and from things strangled,and from fornication:fromwhich if ye keepyourselves, ye shall dowell. Fare ye well.