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Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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But we believe, that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they.
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Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought by them among the Gentiles.
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And after they held their peace, James answered, saying, Men, brethren, hearken to me.
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Simeon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for his name.
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And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
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After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it; and I will set it up:
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That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
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Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
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But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] lewdness, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.