Acts 15:13-17

13When they had finished their report, James spoke to the group. He said, ‘Listen to me, my friends.

14Simon Peter has just described to us what happened first with the Gentile believers. He explained how God chose some of them to belong to him as his own people.

15The message of God's prophets agrees completely with this. They wrote long ago:

16The Lord God said, “Later I will return. At that time I will make David's kingdom strong again. It has become like a house that has fallen down, but I will build it again so that it is strong.

17Then many other people will want to know me, the Lord God. Those are the Gentiles that I have chosen to belong to me. I, the Lord God, say this, and I will make these things happen.