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 after much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days God chose among us that through my mouth the nations should hear the Word of the gospel, and believe.

I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel,

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

They determined

it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

If you will do this thing, and God command you, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

Then through fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Certain

Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men from them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, whose last name was Barsabas; and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

Then he called them in and lodged them. And on the next day Peter went away with them, and certain brothers from Joppa went with him.

And the Spirit told me to go with them, not discriminating. And these six brothers went with me, and we entered the man's house.

Should

And arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders. And they declared all things that God had done with them.

And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

Therefore, having much boldness in Christ to enjoin you to do the fitting thing;

The apostles

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

And on the next day Paul went with us to James. And all the elders were present.

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

For I judge myself to have come behind the highest apostles in nothing.