And certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brothers that, If not you shall become circumcised according to the custom of Moses, not you are able to be saved.

When was hapening then commotion and controversy no small by Paul and Barnabas, with them they appointed to go up Paul and Barnabas and certain others out from them, to the apostles and elders, to Jerusalem, about question this.

They indeed therefore having been sent forward by the church were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, relating in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they were bringing joy great to all the brothers.

Having come then to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. They declared then how much God did with them.

Rose up now certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees having believed saying that, It is necessary to circumcise them, to command [them] then to keep the law of Moses.

Were gathered together then the apostles and the elders to understand about matter this.

Of much now controversy having taken place, having risen up, Peter said to them, Men, brothers, you know that from days early, among you chose God by the mouth of me to hear the Gentiles the word of the gospel, and to believe.

And the heart-knowing God bore witness to them, having given [them] the Spirit Holy, as also to us,

and not one He made distinction between us also and them, by the faith having purified the hearts of them.

Now therefore, why are you testing God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples that neither the fathers of us, nor we, were able to bear?

But by the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe to be saved, in [the] same manner [as] they also.

Kept silent now all the multitude, and were listening to Barnabas and Paul relating how much did God, signs and wonders, among the Gentiles by them.

After now being silent they, answered James, saying, Men, brothers, do hear me.

Simeon has related how first God visited, to take out of [the] Gentiles a people for the name of Him.

And with this agree the words of the prophets, as it has been written:

After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which having fallen and the ruined of it I will rebuild, and I will set upright it,

so that when may seek out the remnant of men the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom has been called the name of Me upon them, says [the] Lord, is doing these things,

known from eternity.’

Therefore I judge not to trouble those who, from the Gentiles, are turning to God,

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and sexual immorality, and that which is strangled, and from blood.

Moses for from generations of old, in every city those proclaiming him has, in the synagogues on every Sabbath being read.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with all the church, having chosen men out from them, to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas who is being called Barsabbas, and Silas, men leading among the brothers,