Acts 15:2-21 Therefore dissension and not a little disputation occurring by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Therefore dissension and not a little disputation occurring by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. ³ And indeed being set forward by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ And arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders. And they declared all things that God had done with them. ⁵ But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses. ⁶ And the apostles and elders were assembled to see about this matter. ⁷ And after much disputing, Peter rose up and 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 believe. ⁸ And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit even as to us. ⁹ And He put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. ¹⁰ Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? ¹¹ But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, according to which manner they also believed. ¹² And all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had worked among the nations through them. ¹³ And after they were silent, James answered, saying, Men, brothers, listen to me. ¹⁴ Even as Simon has declared how God at the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name. ¹⁵ And the words of the Prophets agree to this; as it is written, ¹⁶ "After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up, ¹⁷ so those men who are left might seek after the Lord, and all the nations on whom My name has been called, says the Lord, who does all these things." ¹⁸ All His works are known to God from eternity. ¹⁹ Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those who have turned to God from among the nations, ²⁰ but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses from ages past has those in every city proclaiming him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.