And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

"Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Therefore it is my judgment that we should not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take along one who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote to them our decision that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."

who ought to be here before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance.

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.