Bible verse
And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
Acts 15:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 15.
4 On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.
5 But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
6 So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.
7 After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
8 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
9 He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
10 Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
11 On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
12 The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
KJV
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us;
ASV
And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
ERV
And God, which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
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