Bible Chapter Summary
Acts 15 Summary
The Jerusalem Council: Gentiles and the Law
A dispute erupts: must Gentiles be circumcised? Peter, Paul, and Barnabas testify to God work among the Gentiles. James cites Amos 9 and rules: do not trouble those turning to God from the Gentiles. Write that they abstain from food polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat of strangled animals, and blood.
Key themes
Key verses
Acts 15:8-9
“And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;”
Acts 15:11
“But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”
Acts 15:19
“Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:”
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