经文
使徒行传十五1-11

1有几个人从犹太下来，教训弟兄们说：你们若不按摩西的规条受割礼，不能得救。

2保罗、巴拿巴与他们大大的纷争辩论；众门徒就定规，叫保罗、巴拿巴和本会中几个人，为所辩论的，上耶路撒冷去见使徒和长老。

3于是教会送他们起行。他们经过腓尼基、撒玛利亚，随处传说外邦人归主的事，叫众弟兄都什欢喜。

4到了耶路撒冷，教会和使徒并长老都接待他们，他们就述说神同他们所行的一切事。

5惟有几个信徒、是法利赛教门的人，起来说：必须给外邦人行割礼，吩咐他们遵守摩西的律法。

6使徒和长老聚会商议这事；

7辩论已经多了，彼得就起来，说：诸位弟兄，你们知道神早已在你们中间拣选了我，叫外邦人从我口中得听福音之道，而且相信。

8知道人心的神也为他们作了见证，赐圣灵给他们，正如给我们一样；

9又借着信洁净了他们的心，并不分他们我们。

10现在为什么试探神，要把我们祖宗和我们所不能负的轭放在门徒的颈项上呢？

11我们得救乃是因主耶稣的恩，和他们一样，这是我们所信的。

Bible reading:
Acts 15:1-11

1 Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."

2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad.

4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.

5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses."

6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question.

7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.

9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.

10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."