Acts 15:7-11

7 After there had been much ¹debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren *, you know that in the early days ²God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of ³the gospel and believe.

8 "And God, ⁴who knows the heart, testified to them ⁵giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;

9 and ⁶He made no distinction between us and them, ⁷cleansing their hearts by faith.

10 "Now therefore why do you ⁸put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which ⁹neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

11 "But we believe that we are saved through ¹⁰the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."

Cross References

• 1. Acts 15:2
• 2. Acts 10:19
• 3. Acts 20:24
• 4. Acts 1:24
• 5. Acts 2:4; Acts 10:44, 47
• 6. Acts 10:28, 34; Acts 11:12
• 7. Acts 10:43
• 8. Acts 5:9
• 9. Matthew 23:4; Galatians 5:1
• 10. Romans 3:24; Romans 5:15; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 2:5-8

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "from days of old"