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Acts 15:13-21 KJV
Acts · chapter 15 · verses 13–21
13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 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: 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. 18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.Acts 15:13-21 · King James Version
Acts 15:13-21 in context
11But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12Then 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.
13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
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:
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.
18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22Then 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:
23And 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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Key words (Strong's)
- fornicationporneiaillicit sexual intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse…G4202 →
- tabernacleskēnētent, tabernacle, , of that well known movable temple of God after the pattern of which…G4633 →
- pollutionsalisgēmapollution, condemnationG234 →
- synagoguessynagōgēa bringing together, gathering , a contracting, in the NT, an assembling together of men…G4864 →
- strangledpniktossuffocate, strangled, what is strangledG4156 →
- answeredapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- declaredexēgeomaito lead out, be leader, go before, metaph., to draw out in narrative, unfold a teaching…G1834 →
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We have here a council called, not by writ, but by consent, on this occasion (Act 15:6): The apostles and presbyters came together, to consider this matter. They did not give their judgment separately, but came together to do it, that they might hear one another's sense in this matter;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-21