15:1 有几个人从犹太下来，教训弟兄们说，你们若不按摩西的规例受割礼，就不能得救。
And certain men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
15:2 保罗、巴拿巴与他们起了不小的争执和辩论，众人就指派保罗、巴拿巴、和他们其中的几个人，为所辩论的，上耶路撒冷去见使徒和长老。
And when no little dissension and discussion with them came about through Paul and Barnabas, the brothers directed Paul and Barnabas and certain others among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question.
15:3 于是召会送他们起行，他们经过腓尼基、撒玛利亚，详述外邦人转向神的事，叫众弟兄都甚喜乐。
They therefore, having been sent forward by the church, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail about the turning of the Gentiles; and they brought great joy to all the brothers.
15:4 到了耶路撒冷，召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。
And when they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared the things that God had done with them.
15:5 惟有几个信徒原是法利赛派的人，起来说，必须给外邦人行割礼，嘱咐他们遵守摩西的律法。
But certain men from the sect of the Pharisees who had believed rose up from among them, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.
15:6 使徒和长老聚集商议这事。
And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
15:7 辩论已经多了，彼得就起来，对他们说，诸位，弟兄们，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的话，而且信了。
And when much discussion had taken place, Peter rose up and said to them, Men, brothers, you know that from the early days God chose from among you that through my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
15:8 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；
And God, the Knower of hearts, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as also to us;
15:9 又藉着信洁净了他们的心，并不分他们我们。
And He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
15:10 既然如此，现在你们为什么试探神，要把我们祖宗和我们所不能负的轭，放在门徒的颈项上？
Therefore why are you now testing God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
15:11 我们信，我们得救乃是藉着主耶稣的恩，和他们一样。
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we are saved in the same way also as they are.
15:12 大家都静默下来，听巴拿巴和保罗述说神藉着他们在外邦人中所行的一切神迹奇事。
And all the multitude became silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
15:13 他们住了声，雅各就说，诸位，弟兄们，请听我说。
And when they finished speaking, James answered, saying, Men, brothers, listen to me.
15:14 方才西门述说神当初怎样眷顾外邦人，从他们中间选取百姓归于自己的名。
Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles to take out from them a people for His name.
15:15 众申言者的话也与此相合，
And with this the words of the prophets agree, even as it is written,
15:16 正如经上所写的，“此后我要回来，重新建造大卫倒塌的帐幕，我要重建它的颓墟，把它再立起来，
"After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen; and I will rebuild its ruins and erect it again,
15:17 叫余剩的人，就是一切称为我名下的外邦人，都寻求主，
So that the remainder of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom My name has been called,
15:18 这话是从时间起首显明这事的主说的。”
Says the Lord, who is making these things known from of old.''
15:19 所以我判断，不可难为那转向神的外邦人。
Therefore I judge that we do not harass those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,
15:20 只要写信，叫他们禁戒偶像的污秽和淫乱，并勒死的牲畜和血。
But that we write to them to abstain from the contaminations of idols and fornication and what is strangled and blood.
15:21 因为自古以来，摩西的书在各城有人传讲，每逢安息日，在会堂里诵读。
For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who proclaim him in the synagogues, he being read every Sabbath.
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