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Acts 15:1-21

Listen to Acts 15:1-21

The Council at Jerusalem

1 1Some men came down from Judea and began teaching 2the brethren, "Unless * you are 3circumcised according to 4the custom of Moses, you cannot * be saved."
2 And when Paul and Barnabas had great * dissension and 5debate with them, 6the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the 7apostles and elders concerning this issue.
3 Therefore, being 8sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both 9Phoenicia and Samaria, 10describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all 11the brethren.
4 When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and 12the apostles and the elders, and they 13reported all that God had done with them.
5 But some of 14the sect of the 15Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, "It is necessary to 16circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses."
6 17The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.
7 After there had been much 18debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren *, you know that in the early days 19God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of 20the gospel and believe.
8 "And God, 21who knows the heart, testified to them 22giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;
9 and 23He made no distinction between us and them, 24cleansing their hearts by faith.
10 "Now therefore why do you 25put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which 26neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
11 "But we believe that we are saved through 27the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."
12 All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were 28relating what 29signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

James's Judgment

13 After they had stopped speaking, 30James answered, saying, "Brethren *, listen to me.
14 "31Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.
15 "With this the words of 32the Prophets agree, just as it is written,
16 '33AFTER THESE THINGS 34I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT,
17 35SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES 36WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'
18 37SAYS THE LORD, WHO 38MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.
19 "Therefore it is 39my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,
20 but that we write to them that they abstain from 40things contaminated by idols and from 41fornication and from 42what is strangled and from blood.
21 "For 43Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Acts 15:1-21 Study Resources

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Cross References 43

  • 1. Acts 15:24
  • 2. Acts 1:15; Acts 15:3, 22, 32
  • 3. Leviticus 12:3; Acts 15:5; 1 Corinthians 7:18; Galatians 2:11, 14; Galatians 5:2
  • 4. Acts 6:14
  • 5. Acts 15:7
  • 6. Galatians 2:2
  • 7. Acts 11:30; Acts 15:4, 6, 22, 23; Acts 16:4
  • 8. Acts 20:38; Acts 21:5; Romans 15:24; 1 Corinthians 16:6, 11; 2 Corinthians 1:16; Titus 3:13; 3 John 6
  • 9. Acts 11:19
  • 10. Acts 14:27; Acts 15:4, 12
  • 11. Acts 1:15; Acts 15:22, 32
  • 12. Acts 11:30; Acts 15:6, 22, 23; Acts 16:4
  • 13. Acts 14:27; Acts 15:12
  • 14. Acts 5:17; Acts 24:5, 14; Acts 26:5; Acts 28:22
  • 15. Matthew 3:7; Acts 26:5
  • 16. 1 Corinthians 7:18; Galatians 2:11, 14; Galatians 5:2
  • 17. Acts 11:30; Acts 15:4, 22, 23; Acts 16:4
  • 18. Acts 15:2
  • 19. Acts 10:19
  • 20. Acts 20:24
  • 21. Acts 1:24
  • 22. Acts 2:4; Acts 10:44, 47
  • 23. Acts 10:28, 34; Acts 11:12
  • 24. Acts 10:43
  • 25. Acts 5:9
  • 26. Matthew 23:4; Galatians 5:1
  • 27. Romans 3:24; Romans 5:15; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 2:5-8
  • 28. Acts 14:27; Acts 15:3, 4
  • 29. John 4:48
  • 30. Acts 12:17
  • 31. Acts 15:7; 2 Peter 1:1
  • 32. Acts 13:40
  • 33. Amos 9:11
  • 34. Jeremiah 12:15
  • 35. Amos 9:12
  • 36. Deuteronomy 28:10; Isaiah 63:19; Jeremiah 14:9; Daniel 9:19; James 2:7
  • 37. Amos 9:12
  • 38. Isaiah 45:21
  • 39. Acts 15:28; Acts 21:25
  • 40. Exodus 34:15-17; Daniel 1:8; Acts 15:29; 1 Corinthians 8:7, 13; 1 Corinthians 10:7f, 14-28; Revelation 2:14, 20
  • 41. Leviticus 18:6-23
  • 42. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, 14; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23; Deuteronomy 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:33
  • 43. Acts 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14

Footnotes 11

  • [a] Lit "not a little"
  • [b] Lit "see about"
  • [c] Lit "word"
  • [d] Lit "from days of old"
  • [e] Or "Jacob"
  • [f] Or "tent"
  • [g] Gr "anthropoi"
  • [h] Lit "upon whom My name is called"
  • [i] Or "does these things" which were "known"
  • [j] Lit "the pollutions of"
  • [k] I.e. the books of Moses, Gen through Deut
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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