Acts 15:1-12 (New American Standard Bible)

Acts 15

The Council at Jerusalem

 ^1(A)Some men came down from Judea and began teaching ^(B)the brethren, "Unless you are ^(C)circumcised according to ^(D)the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

 ²And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and ^(E)debate with them, ^(F)the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the ^(G)apostles and elders concerning this issue.

 ³Therefore, being ^(H)sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both ^(I)Phoenicia and Samaria, ^(J)describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all ^(K)the brethren.

 ⁴When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and ^(L)the apostles and the elders, and they ^(M)reported all that God had done with them.

 ⁵But some of ^(N)the sect of the ^(O)Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, "It is necessary to ^(P)circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses."

 ^6(Q)The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

 ⁷After there had been much ^(R)debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days ^(S)God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of ^(T)the gospel and believe.

 ⁸"And God, ^(U)who knows the heart, testified to them ^(V)giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;

 ⁹and ^(W)He made no distinction between us and them, ^(X)cleansing their hearts by faith.

 ¹⁰"Now therefore why do you ^(Y)put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which ^(Z)neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

 ¹¹"But we believe that we are saved through ^(AA)the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."

 ¹²All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were ^(AB)relating what ^(AC)signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.