Acts 15

Acts 15:4

They were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders.

They were gladly received by the whole congregation; and especially by the Apostles, and those Presbyters which the Apostles had there ordained.

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?

Why do ye go about to cross God, in thwarting his ordinance; and altering the course, which he hath set for the justification and salvation of men; by imposing upon the disciples a necessity of subjecting themselves to this yoke of the Law of Ceremonies, and, by consequence, to the Law of Works; a condition, which not they only, but even the holiest of our fathers, were utterly unable to undergo and fulfil?

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.

Only, that we write unto them, that they abstain from those

Acts 15:21

For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

For we may not, all at once, inhibit the observations of these rites and Mosaical ceremonies, forasmuch as the people have been of old trained up in them, and are taught in every city to regard and observe them; in that, every sabbath day, the Law of Moses is, by several sections, read to them in their Synagogues: they must therefore be weaned from them, by degrees and meet leisure.

Acts 15:28

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you &c.

It seemed good to us, being herein led and guided by the Holy Ghost, to lay upon you &c.