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When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
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And they, being accompanied by
some from the
congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
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And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the
congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and
by the apostles and elders, and they declared all the things that God had done with them.
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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them and to command
them to keep the law of Moses.
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And the apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter.
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And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up and said unto them, Men
and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God chose that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
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And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as
he did unto us,
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and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
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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.