Acts 15:9

Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

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In The King James Version

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

In Context

8And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

10Why 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?

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Cross References

Acts 10:28And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

Acts 10:43To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

Acts 14:1Now in Iconium they went together to the Synagogue of the Jews and gave such teaching that a great number of Jews and Greeks had faith.

Romans 3:9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

Romans 3:29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

Romans 9:24Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

Matthew Henry on Acts 15:7-22

The Council at Jerusalem. 6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by… Read the whole commentary →

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