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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Acts 14
²¹ After they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God."
²³ When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
²⁴ They passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia.
²⁵ When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
²⁶ From there they sailed to Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had accomplished.
²⁷ When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
²⁸ And they spent a long time with the disciples.
Acts 15
¹ Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
² And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
³ Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.