Acts 15
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Acts 15:12-18

12The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

13After they stopped speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.

14Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

15The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

16‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

17so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

18known from long ago.

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