15:13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

15:14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

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

15:16After 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:

15:17That 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.

15:18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

15:19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

15:21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.