Acts 15:17-23
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17 That 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.
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18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
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20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
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22 Then 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:
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23 And 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: