American Standard Version
"Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. "
— Acts 15:14, American Standard Version
“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
“Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.”
“Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.”
“Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.”
“Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.”
“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.
And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles through them.
And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:
That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,