Acts 15:12-22

12And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which 1God had wrought among the nations by them.

13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me:

14Simon has related how 2God first visited to take out of [the] nations a people for his name.

15And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written:

16After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up,

17so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who does these things

18known from eternity.

19Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to 3God;

20but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

21For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

22Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,