Acts 15:38

but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

In Context

37And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also, called Mark;

39There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed away to Cyprus;

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:19A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.

Luke 14:27and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

James 1:8[he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Matthew Henry on Acts 15:37-41

Disagreement between Paul and Barnabas. 36 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. 37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. 38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. 39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so… Read the whole commentary →

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