New TestamentActsThe Judgment of James · 15:12–2115:12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:15:14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.15:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
