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Acts 15:13-23

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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."
22 Then it seemed good to 15the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to 16Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -Judas called Barsabbas, and 17Silas, leading men among 18the brethren,
23 and they sent this letter by them, "19The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to 20the brethren in 21Antioch and 22Syria and 23Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, 24greetings.
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Cross References 24

  • 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
  • 15. Acts 15:2
  • 16. Acts 11:20
  • 17. Acts 15:27, 32, 40; Acts 16:19, 25, 29; Acts 17:4, 10, 14; Acts 18:5; 2 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Peter 5:12
  • 18. Acts 15:1
  • 19. Acts 15:2
  • 20. Acts 15:1
  • 21. Acts 11:20
  • 22. Matthew 4:24; Acts 15:41; Galatians 1:21
  • 23. Acts 6:9
  • 24. Acts 23:26; James 1:1; 2 John 10

Footnotes 8

  • [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
  • [h]. Lit "wrote by their hand"
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