Acts 15:7-11

7 And [after] there was much debate, Peter stood up [and] said to them, "Men [and] brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you through my mouth [that] the Gentiles should hear the message of the gospel and believe.

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

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

10 So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

11 But we believe [we] will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in {the same} way those also [are]."

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")
• [b] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("stood up") has been translated as a finite verb
• [c] Or "from ancient days"
• [d] *Here "[by]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("giving") which is understood as means
• [e] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [f] *Here "[by]" is supplied as a component of the infinitive ("placing") which is understood as means
• [g] Literally "which"