Acts 15:2

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Summary

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Paul

They determined

Acts 15:25

Exodus 18:23

Galatians 2:1

Certain

Acts 15:22

Acts 10:23

Acts 11:12

Should

Philemon 1:8

The apostles

Bible References

Paul

And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

They determined

it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

If thou do this thing, and God command thee so, thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me;

Certain

Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him.

And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,

Should

And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them.

And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting,

The apostles

And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders came there.

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,

For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.