Acts 15:19 KJV

Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

Words Then and Now

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Scofield Notes

  • WhereforeThe scope of the decision goes far beyond the mere question of circumcision. The whole question of the relation of the law to Gentile believers had been put...

Matthew Henry

  • The council at JerusalemWe see from the words "purifying their hearts by faith,"and the address of St. Peter, that justification by faith, and sanctification by the Holy Ghost,...

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
  • Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
  • Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

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Topics

  • Antioch Dissension within the congregation of
  • Barnabas Is sent as an emissary to Jerusalem
  • Catholicity Inculcated
  • Church Government of, mosaic and Christian
  • Circumcision Abrogated

Timeline

Bible Dictionary

  • Gentiles(Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to...
  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Greek and Strong’s

  • Wherefore Διὸ Dio διό Conjunction
  • my ἐγὼ egō ἐγώ Pronoun · first person, nominative singular
  • sentence is κρίνω krinō κρίνω Verb · present active indicative, first person singular
  • that we trouble παρενοχλεῖν parenochlein παρενοχλέω Verb · present active infinitive
  • not μὴ mē μή Conjunction
  • them, which τοῖς tois ὁ Pronoun · dative masculine plural
  • from among ἀπὸ apo ἀπό Preposition
  • the Gentiles τῶν tōn Article · genitive neuter plural Ἐθνῶν Ethnōn ἔθνος Noun · genitive neuter plural
  • are turned ἐπιστρέφουσιν epistrephousin ἐπιστρέφω Verb · present active participle, dative masculine plural
  • to ἐπὶ epi ἐπί Preposition
  • God τὸν ton Article · accusative masculine singular Θεόν Theon θεός Noun · accusative masculine singular

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0

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