The Jerusalem Council accepted James's argument that three dietary laws and the law against sexual immorality should be imposed on gentiles. One reason was that the Law of "Moses [had] been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath." (Acts 15:21) Jesus dismissed the dietary laws; nowhere are the laws against sexual immorality dismissed.

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