Acts 15:17

And some people from other countries will ask me for help. They are my people too. I am God. I promised to do that a long time ago, so I will do it.”’ That’s all in God’s book.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16‘God said, “I will come back later, and I will fix up David’s family again. David’s family are like a tent that broke and fell down. But I will fix them up and make them strong again.

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Cross References

Genesis 48:16You are the one that saved me and set me free from all the bad things that happened to me. So now, I’m asking you to be good to these 2 boys, Ephraim and Manasseh. Let them be just like my own sons, and give them those good things that you promised to me, and to my grand-father Abraham, and to my father Isaac. Let them have lots of kids and grand-kids, so that their families will become a really big mob here on earth.”

Psalms 22:26I will invite people to eat that lunch with me. I will invite lots of people that have trouble, and they will eat until they are full. Some people trust God to help them, and they will all praise him. I pray that God looks after them for ever.

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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