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Douay Rheims Original

Acts 15 📜 📕

Dispute over Circumcision

1 AND certain coming down from Jewry, taught the brethren: That unless you be circumcised according to the manner of Moyses, you can not be saved.📜💬📚
2 No little sedition therefore being risen to Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed that Paul and Barnabas should go up, & certain others of the rest, to the Apostles and Priests unto Jerusalem, upon this question.📜💬📚
3 They therefore being brought on their way by the Church, passed through Phoenice & Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles: and they made great joy to all the brethren.📜💬📚
4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the Church and of the Apostles and Ancients, declaring whatsoever God had done with them.📜💬📚

Council at Jerusalem

5 And there arose certain of the heresy of the Pharisees that believed, saying, That they must be circumcised; commanded also to keep the law of Moyses.📜💬📚
6 And the Apostles and Ancients assembled to consider of this word.📜💬📚
7 And when there was made a great disputation, Peter rising up said to them: Men, brethren, you know that of old days God among us chose, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.📜💬📚
8 And God which knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost as well as to us,📜💬📚
9 and hath put no difference between us and them, by faith purifying their hearts.📜💬📚
10 Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the necks of the Disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?📜💬📚
11 But by the grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST we believe to be saved, in like manner as they also.📜💬📚
12 And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.📜💬📚
13 And after they held their peace, James answered, saying: Men, brethren, hear me.📜💬📚
14 Simon hath told how God first visited to take of the Gentiles a people to his name.📜💬📚
15 And to this accord the words of the Prophets, as it is written:📜💬📚
16 After these things I will return, and will re-edify the tabernacle of David which was fallen, and the ruins thereof I will re-edify, and set it up:📜💬📚
17 that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invocated, saith the Lord that doeth these things.📜💬📚
18 To our Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.📜💬📚
19 For the which cause I judge, that they which of the Gentiles are converted to God, are not to be disquieted,📜💬📚
20 but to write unto them that they refrain themselves from the contaminations of idols, and fornication, and strangled things, and blood.📜💬📚
21 For Moyses of old times hath in every city them that preach him in the Synagogues, where he is read every Sabboth.📜💬📚

Letter to the Gentile Believers

22 Then it pleased the Apostles and Ancients with the whole Church, to choose men out of them, & to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, & Silas, chief men among the Brethren,📜💬📚
23 writing by their hands. The Apostles and Ancients, the brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.📜💬📚
24 Because we have heard that certain going forth from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment:📜💬📚
25 It hath pleased us being gathered in one, to choose out men & to send them unto you with our dearest Barnabas and Paul,📜💬📚
26 men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.📜💬📚
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas who themselves also will in words report unto you the same things.📜💬📚
28 For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:📜💬📚
29 That you abstain from the things immolated to idols, and blood, and that which is strangled, and fornication, from the which things keeping your selves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.📜💬📚

Believers at Antioch Rejoice

30 They therefore being dismissed went down to Antioch: and gathering the multitude, delivered the epistle.📜💬📚
31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced upon the consolation:📜💬📚
32 but Judas and Silas, themselves also being prophets, with many words comforted the brethren, and confirmed them.📜💬📚
33 And having spent some time there, they were with peace dismissed of the brethren unto them that had sent them.📜💬📚
34 But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas departed alone:📜💬📚
35 and Paul and Barnabas tarried at Antioch, teaching and evangelizing with many others the word of our Lord.📜💬📚

Paul's Second Missionary Journey Begins

36 And after certain days, Paul said to Barnabas, let us return and visit our brethren in all cities wherein we have preached the word of our Lord, how they do.📜💬📚
37 And Barnabas would have taken with them John also that was surnamed Mark.📜💬📚
38 But Paul desired that he (as who had departed from them out of Pamphylia, & had not gone with them to the work) might not be received.📜💬📚
39 And there rose a dissension, so that they departed one from another, & that, Barnabas indeed taking Mark sailed to Cypres.📜💬📚
40 But Paul choosing Silas departed, being delivered of the brethren to the grace of God.📜💬📚
41 And he walked through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the Churches: commanding them to keep the precepts of the Apostles & the Ancients.📜💬📚

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