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But 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 as they declared what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, "Men and brethren, hearken unto me.
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Simon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out from 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 build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. And I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up,
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that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom My name is called, saith the Lord who doeth 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 judgment is that we trouble not those from among the Gentiles who are turned to God,
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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.
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For Moses from olden times hath in every city those who preach him, he being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day."