Acts 15:7-11

7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: "Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you,^[a] that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

8 And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving^[b] the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.

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

10 Why, then, are you now testing God by putting on the disciples' necks a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

11 On the contrary, we believe we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way they are."

Footnotes

• [a] Other mss read us
• [b] Other mss add them