Acts Chapter 15

• Acts 15:1
  Acts.
• Acts 15:2
  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
• Acts 15:3
  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul, Barnabas, and some others of them to go up to Jer...
• Acts 15:4
  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great ...
• Acts 15:5
  When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done wi...
• Acts 15:6
  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses....
• Acts 15:7
  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
• Acts 15:8
  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my ...
• Acts 15:9
  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
• Acts 15:10
  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• Acts 15:11
  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Acts 15:12
  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
• Acts 15:13
  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
• Acts 15:14
  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
• Acts 15:15
  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
• Acts 15:16
  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
• Acts 15:17
  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up
• Acts 15:18
  that the rest of men may seek after the Lord: all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’
• Acts 15:19
  “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
• Acts 15:20
  Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
• Acts 15:21
  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 15:22
  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
• Acts 15:23
  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul an...
• Acts 15:24
  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cil...
• Acts 15:25
  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep th...
• Acts 15:26
  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
• Acts 15:27
  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 15:28
  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
• Acts 15:29
  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
• Acts 15:30
  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it...
• Acts 15:31
  So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
• Acts 15:32
  When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
• Acts 15:33
  Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
• Acts 15:34
  After they had spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the apostles.
• Acts 15:35
  But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
• Acts 15:36
  After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how ...
• Acts 15:37
  Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
• Acts 15:38
  But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the wo...
• Acts 15:39
  Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
• Acts 15:40
  but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
• Acts 15:41
  He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.