Acts 15:13-21

James's Judgment

13 After they had stopped speaking, ¹James answered, saying, "Brethren *, listen to me.

14 "²Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

15 "With this the words of ³the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

16 '⁴AFTER THESE THINGS ⁵I 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 ⁶SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES ⁷WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'

18 ⁸SAYS THE LORD, WHO ⁹MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

19 "Therefore it is ¹⁰my 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 ¹¹things contaminated by idols and from ¹²fornication and from ¹³what is strangled and from blood.

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

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Cross References 14

1. Acts 12:17
2. Acts 15:7; 2 Peter 1:1
3. Acts 13:40
4. Amos 9:11
5. Jeremiah 12:15
6. Amos 9:12
7. Deuteronomy 28:10; Isaiah 63:19; Jeremiah 14:9; Daniel 9:19; James 2:7
8. Amos 9:12
9. Isaiah 45:21
10. Acts 15:28; Acts 21:25
11. 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
12. Leviticus 18:6-23
13. 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
14. Acts 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14

Footnotes 7

[a]. Or "Jacob"
[b]. Or "tent"
[c]. Gr "anthropoi"
[d]. Lit "upon whom My name is called"
[e]. Or "does these things" which were "known"
[f]. Lit "the pollutions of"
[g]. I.e. the books of Moses, Gen through Deut

Acts 15:13-21

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James's Judgment

Cross References 14

Footnotes 7