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their hearts by faith.
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Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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But we believe that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
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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.
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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men
and
brethren, hearken unto
me:
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Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people
for his name.
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And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
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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:
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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.
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Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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Wherefore my sentence is, that we
trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
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But that we write unto them,
that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and
from
fornication, and
from
things strangled, and
from
blood.
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For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues
every sabbath day.
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Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen
men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas;
namely,
Judas surnamed Barsabas,
and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
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And they wrote
letters
by them after this manner; The
apostles and elders and brethren
send
greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch
and Syria and Cilicia:
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Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have
troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying,
Ye must
be circumcised, and keep the law:
to whom we gave no
such
commandment:
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It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one
accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
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Men that have hazarded
their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who
shall also tell
you
the same things by mouth.
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For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us,
to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
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That ye abstain frommeats offered
to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep
yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
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So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch:
and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
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Which
when they
had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
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And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves,
exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed
them.
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And after they had tarried
there
a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
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Notwithstanding it pleased
Silas to abide there still.
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Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching
the word of the Lord, with many others also.
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And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every
city where we have preached the word of the Lord,
and see
how they do.
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And Barnabas determined
to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
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But Paul thought not good to take him with
them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
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And the
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