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Acts 15:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, ‘Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you,  that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

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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.


But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course  and the ministry  I received from the Lord Jesus,  to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.


Get up, go downstairs, and go with them with no doubts at all, because I have sent them.’


Do everything without grumbling  and arguing,


They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark  with him and sailed off to Cyprus.


As they were worshipping  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’


But the Lord said to him, ‘Go, for this man is my chosen instrument   to take my name to Gentiles,   kings, and Israelites.


You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David your servant: Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot futile things?


In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets #– #that his Messiah would suffer.


Then they prayed,  ‘You, Lord, know everyone’s hearts; show which of these two you have chosen


‘Brothers and sisters, it was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of David, foretold about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.


You did not choose me, but I chose you.   I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask   the Father in my name,   he will give you.


John responded, ‘No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.


Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth,  and told me: I have now filled your mouth with my words.


Now go! I will help you speak  and I will teach you what to say.’


While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, ‘Three men are here looking for you.


Simeon  has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.


Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us and brought us to Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.





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