Acts 15:13-21

13 After they finished speaking, ¹James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.

14 ²Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them ³a people for his name.

15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

16 ⁴"'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,

17 that the remnant^[a] of mankind ⁵may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles ⁶who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things

18 ⁷known from of old.'

19 Therefore ⁸my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who ⁹turn to God,

20 but should write to them ¹⁰to abstain from ¹¹the things polluted by idols, and from ¹²sexual immorality, and from ¹³what has been strangled, and from ¹⁴blood.

21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, ¹⁵for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."

Cross References

• 1. See Acts 12:17
• 2. [ver. 7]
• 3. [Acts 18:10; Deuteronomy 7:6; Isaiah 43:21; Romans 9:24-26]
• 4. Cited from Amos 9:11, 12; [Jeremiah 12:15]
• 5. [Acts 17:27]
• 6. Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 14:9; Daniel 9:19
• 7. [Isaiah 45:21]
• 8. [ver. 28]
• 9. See Acts 14:15
• 10. Acts 21:25
• 11. [ver. 29; Ezekiel 4:13, 14; Daniel 1:8; Malachi 1:7, 12]
• 12. 1 Corinthians 10:7, 8; Revelation 2:14, 20; See 1 Corinthians 6:18
• 13. See Leviticus 3:17
• 14. See Leviticus 3:17
• 15. Acts 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14, 15; [Acts 13:27]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or rest