And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that through my mouth the Gentiles should hear the Word of the gospel and believe.

I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,

But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

to whom we did not yield in submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth.

Then he invited them in and lodged them. And on the next day Peter went away with them, and some brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

Then the Spirit spoke to me to go with them without hestitating. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.

And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them.

Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

They wrote this letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

And Jehovah said to Samuel, Consent to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, for Me to not reign over them.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under the Law toward Christ), that I might gain those who are without law;

Now this I do through the gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to order you to do what is fitting,

yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you; being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.

They wrote this letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

And on the following day Paul went in with us to Jacob, and all the elders were present.

Paul, appointed an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.