13. When they had finished, James stood and said, “Brothers, listen to me.
14. Peter has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself.
15. And this conversion of Gentiles is exactly what the prophets predicted. As it is written:
16. ‘Afterward I will returnand restore the fallen house of David.I will rebuild its ruinsand restore it,
17. so that the rest of humanity might seek the lord,including the Gentiles—all those I have called to be mine.The lord has spoken—
18. he who made these things known so long ago.’
19. “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
20. Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from eating food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from consuming blood.
21. For these laws of Moses have been preached in Jewish synagogues in every city on every Sabbath for many generations.”