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Now therefore why tempt ye God, putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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For we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
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Then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what great miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
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And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, Men
and brethren, hearken unto me:
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Simeon has declared how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
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And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
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After this I will return and will restore the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will repair its ruins, and I will set it up again,
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that the men that are left might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who does all these things.
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Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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Therefore my sentence is that those from among the Gentiles who are converted to God not be troubled,
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but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and
from fornication and
from things strangled and
from blood.