Acts 15:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “My brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the good news and become believers.

Cross References

Exodus 4:12

Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.”

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

John 3:27

John answered, “No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven.

Acts 1:16

“Brothers and sisters, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus,

Acts 1:24

Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen

Acts 10:19

While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Look, three men are searching for you.

Acts 10:20

Now get up, go down, and go with them without hesitation, for I have sent them.”

Acts 13:2

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 15:14

Simeon has related how God first looked favorably on the gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name.

Acts 15:2

And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to discuss this question with the apostles and the elders.

Acts 15:39

The disagreement became so sharp that they parted company; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

Acts 20:24

But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

Acts 21:16

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

Acts 3:18

In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.

Acts 4:25

it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant: ‘Why did the gentiles rage and the peoples imagine vain things?

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmuring and arguing,