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## Acts 15:13-17 in Context (Verses 10–20 KJV)
 
 [10 ](/kjv/acts/15/10) Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
 
 [11 ](/kjv/acts/15/11) But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/acts/15/12) ¶ Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/acts/15/13) ¶ And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men *and* brethren, hearken unto me:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/acts/15/14) Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/acts/15/15) And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
 
 [16 ](/kjv/acts/15/16) After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
 
 [17 ](/kjv/acts/15/17) That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/acts/15/18) Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/acts/15/19) Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
 
 [20 ](/kjv/acts/15/20) But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and *from* fornication, and *from* things strangled, and *from* blood.
 
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