Acts 15:8-11

8And God, who knows and understands the heart, testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;

9and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith [in Jesus].

10Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to endure?

11But we believe that we are saved through the [precious, undeserved] grace of the Lord Jesus [which makes us free of the guilt of sin and grants us eternal life], in just the same way as they are.”