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And the apostles and the elders came together to consider 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 made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the Word of the Gospel and believe.
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And God, who knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost 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 to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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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,