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|Atos 15:1|
Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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|Atos 15:2|
This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
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|Atos 15:3|
The church sent them on their way, and as they travelled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad.
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|Atos 15:4|
When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
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|Atos 15:5|
Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
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|Atos 15:6|
The apostles and elders met to consider this question.
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|Atos 15:7|
After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
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|Atos 15:8|
God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.
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|Atos 15:9|
He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.
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|Atos 15:10|
Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
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