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Acts 15:6

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The apostles and elders met to consider this question.

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Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul—

The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present.

When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.

So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.

For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.

As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.




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