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For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.

And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,

For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

And when they had been there for some time, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

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Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.