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Acts 15:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

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The whole assembly became silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describe all the signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.


After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them  and that he had opened the door  of faith to the Gentiles.


When they had been sent on their way by the church,  they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy to all the brothers and sisters.


For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me  by word and deed for the obedience of the Gentiles,


When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters welcomed us warmly.


If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive  him into your home, and do not greet him;


Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you greetings, as does Mark,  Barnabas’s  cousin (concerning whom you have received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),


Working together with him, we also appeal to you, ‘Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.’


That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world  to himself,  not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.


But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.


Therefore welcome one another,  just as  Christ also welcomed you, to the glory of God.


After greeting them, he reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.


When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers and sisters wrote to the disciples to welcome him. After he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.


‘The one who welcomes you welcomes me,   and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.


They did this, sending it to the elders  by means of Barnabas and Saul.


After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.


The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this matter.


Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas,  both leading men among the brothers.


As they travelled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.





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