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Acts 15:25

James Moffatt - New Testament

we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

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And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord means salvation; as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to you out of the wisdom vouchsafed to him,

Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood.

As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency,

no longer a mere slave but something more than a slave — a beloved brother; especially dear to me but how much more to you as a man and as a Christian!

He is accompanied by that faithful and beloved brother Onesimus, who is one of yourselves. They will inform you of all that goes on here.

Tychicus, that beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, will give you all information about me.

Our beloved brother Tychicus, a faithful minister in the Lord, will give you all information about me, so that you may know how I am;

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who work hard in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis; she has worked very hard in the Lord.

Paul and Barnabas, however, stayed on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord along with a number of others.

The apostles and the presbyters met to investigate this question,

Day after day they resorted with one accord to the temple and broke bread together in their own homes; they ate with a glad and simple heart,

During the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together,

yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose.




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