Acts 15:7-11; Acts 15:13-21

Acts 15:7-11

7 When there had been much discussion, Kefa rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Goyim should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Ruach HaKodesh, just like he did to us.

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

10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Yeshua, just as they are."

Acts 15:13-21

13 After they were silent, Ya`akov answered, "Brothers, listen to me.

14 Shim`on has reported how God first visited the Goyim, to take out of them a people for his name.

15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

16 'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Goyim who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.

18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'

19 "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Goyim who turn to God,

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moshe from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Shabbat."