8. And God, which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9. and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10. Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11. But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.
12. And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
14. Symeon hath rehearsed how first God did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16. After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:
17. That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,
18. Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from the beginning of the world.
19. Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles turn to God;
20. but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.