Acts 15:2-21 Then dissension and not a little disputation with them having taken place by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up into Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this question.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Then dissension and not a little disputation with them having taken place by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up into Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this question. ³ Then, indeed, having been sent forward by the church they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, fully narrating the conversion of the nations. And they were producing great joy among all the brothers. ⁴ And having arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported what things God did with them. ⁵ But some of those rose up from the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses. ⁶ And the apostles and the elders were assembled to see about this matter. ⁷ And much disputation having occurred, rising up Peter said to them: Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days, God chose among us that through my mouth the nations should hear the Word of the gospel, and to believe. ⁸ And the heart knowing God testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us. ⁹ And He made distinction in nothing between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. ¹⁰ Now, then, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we had strength to bear? ¹¹ But through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, according to which manner they also believed . ¹² And all the multitude kept silent and were hearing Barnabas and Paul recounting what things God did through them among the nations, even the signs and wonders. ¹³ And after they were silent, James responded, saying, Men, brothers, hear me: ¹⁴ Simon recounted how even as at first God oversaw to take a people out from among the nations for His name. ¹⁵ And with this agree the words of the prophets, as it has been written, ¹⁶ After these things "I" will return and "will build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen," "and I will build again the things which have been demolished," and I will set it up, Amos 9:11, 12 ¹⁷ so as the rest of men may seek the Lord, "even all the nations on whom My name has been called, says the Lord, who is doing all these things." Amos 9:11, 12 ¹⁸ All His works are known to God from eternity. ¹⁹ For this reason I judge not to trouble those from the nations turning to God, ²⁰ but to write to them to hold back from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and that strangled, and blood. ²¹ For in every city from ancient generations Moses has those proclaiming him, having been read in the synagogues on every sabbath.