Acts 15:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

When they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.

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  • Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain men who came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Acts 16:5 : 5 Thus the churches were established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
  • Gal 2:4-5 : 4 And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we did not yield submission, no, not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

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