Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we return the sacrifices of our lips.
Seeing that we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, You must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
And they are informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk according to the customs.
As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they should observe no such thing, except only that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.
But declared first to those of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works suitable for repentance.
And that because of false brethren brought in without our knowledge, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;