Acts 15:1-5 AND certain men who had come down from JudµÆa taught the brethren, Unless you be circumcised in accordance with the custom of the law you cannot be saved.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ AND certain men who had come down from JudµÆa taught the brethren, Unless you be circumcised in accordance with the custom of the law you cannot be saved. ² And there was great dissension and controversy between them and Paul and BarÆnabas, and it reached such a point that it was necessary for Paul and BarÆna-bas and others with them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this question. ³ They were given an escort and sent on their way by the church, and they traveled through all Phoe-niÆci-a and the territory of the Sa-marÆi-tans, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. ⁴ On their arrival at Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders; and they reported everything that God had done with them. ⁵ But some of the men who had been converted from the sect of the PharÆi-sees rose up and said, You must circumcise them and command them to keep the law of Moses.