Acts 15:7-8

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;