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And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.
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And when there had been much questioning, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
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and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.
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And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles through them.
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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
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Symeon hath rehearsed how first God 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 these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up: