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Acts 15 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts chapter 15. Some men came down from Judea
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  and began teaching the brethren, Unless you are circumcised,
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  according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
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  And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with
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  them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas, and some
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  others of them, should go up to Jerusalem.
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  To the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
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  Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were
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  passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in
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  detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing
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  great joy to all the brethren. When they arrived at Jerusalem,
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  they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders,
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  and they reported all that God had done with them.
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  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood
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  up, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to direct
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  them to observe the law of Moses.
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  The apostles and the elders came together to look into this
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  matter. After there had been much
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  debate, Peter stood up and said to them, Brethren, you know that
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  in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my
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  mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and
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  believe. And God, who knows the heart,
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  testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also
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  did to us, and He made no distinction between us and them,
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  cleansing their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why do you put
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  God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples A yoke
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  which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
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  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord
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  Jesus in the same way as they also are.
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  All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas
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  and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had
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  done through them among the Gentiles.
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  After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying,
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  Brethren, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first
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  concerned himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people
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  for his name. With this the words of the
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  prophets agree just as it is written.
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  After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the
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  Tabernacle of David which has fallen, and I will rebuild its
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  ruins, and I will restore it, so that the rest of mankind may
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  seek the Lord. And all the Gentiles who are
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  called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
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  known from long ago. Therefore it is my judgement
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  that we do not trouble the those who are turning to God from
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  among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain
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  from things contaminated by idols and from fornication, and
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  from what is strangled and from blood.
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  For Moses from ancient generations, as in every city,
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  those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogue's every
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  Sabbath, Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders with
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  the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to
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  Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. Judas called Barsabbas and
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  Silas, leading men among the brethren.
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  And they sent this letter by them, the apostles and the
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  brethren who are elders, to the brethren in Antioch, in Syria
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  and Silesia, who are from the Gentiles.
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  Greetings. Since we have heard that some of
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  our number, to whom we gave no instruction, have disturbed you
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  with their words on settling your souls, it seemed good to
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  us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you
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  with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their
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  lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will also
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  report the same things by word of mouth.
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  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you
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  no greater burden than these essentials, that you abstain
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  from things sacrificed to idols and from blood, and from things
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  strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from
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  such things, you will do well. Farewell.
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  So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch, and
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  having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the
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  letter. When they had read it, they
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  rejoiced because of its encouragement.
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  Judas and Silas also, being prophets themselves, encouraged
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  and strengthen the brethren with a lengthy message.
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  After they had spent time there, they were sent away from the
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  brethren in peace to those who had sent them out.
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  But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.
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  But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching
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  with many others, also the word of the Lord.
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  After some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and
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  visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaim the word of
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  the Lord, and see how they are. Barnabas wanted to take John
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  called Mark along with them also, but Paul kept insisting
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  that they should not take him along, who had deserted them in
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  Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
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  And there occurred such a sharp disagreement that they separated
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  from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed
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  away to Cyprus. But Paul chose Silas and left,
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  being committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord, And he
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  was travelling through Syria and Silesia, strengthening the
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  churches.