Acts 15:7-11

7 And after there had been much ¹debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, ²that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear ³the word of ⁴the gospel and believe.

8 And God, ⁵who knows the heart, ⁶bore witness to them, ⁷by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

9 and ⁸he made no distinction between us and them, ⁹having cleansed their hearts ¹⁰by faith.

10 Now, therefore, why ¹¹are you putting God to the test ¹²by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples ¹³that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

11 But we ¹⁴believe that we will be ¹⁵saved through ¹⁶the grace of the Lord Jesus, ¹⁷just as they will. ”

Cross References

• 1. 15:7 ver. 2
• 2. 15:7 ch. 10:20
• 3. 15:7 [Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:5; 1 Thess. 1:5]
• 4. 15:7 ch. 20:24
• 5. 15:8 ch. 1:24
• 6. 15:8 ch. 14:3
• 7. 15:8 ch. 10:44, 47; 11:15, 17; [ver. 28; Gal. 3:2]
• 8. 15:9 ch. 11:12; Rom. 3:22-24; Eph. 3:6; [ch. 10:28, 34]
• 9. 15:9 Ps. 51:10; [ch. 26:18; 2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Pet. 1:22]
• 10. 15:9 See ch. 10:43
• 11. 15:10 Ps. 106:14; Isa. 7:12
• 12. 15:10 Gal. 5:1; [ver. 28]
• 13. 15:10 [Matt. 11:28; 23:4; Luke 11:46]
• 14. 15:11 [ch. 16:31]
• 15. 15:11 Eph. 2:5, 8; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 2:11; 3:7; [Rom. 3:24; 1 Thess. 5:9]
• 16. 15:11 Rom. 5:15
• 17. 15:11 [See ver. 9 above]