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 there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, 'Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

They determined

it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --

If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.'

Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;

Certain

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren --

Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them, and on the morrow Peter went forth 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 these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,

Should

And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

The apostles

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

and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,

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

for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,