Acts 15:19
Therefore I judge that we should not create difficulty for those who are turning to God from among the ethnic nations,
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
In Context
18All His works are known to God from eternity.
Cross References
Acts 15:24Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the Law —to whom we gave no such authorization—
Acts 26:20—first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance.’
Galatians 2:4This came up because of the false brothers who were smuggled in (who stole in to spy out our freedom, that we have in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery),
1 Thessalonians 1:9They themselves report about you what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to be slaves to the living and true God,
Matthew Henry on Acts 15:7-22
The Council at Jerusalem. 6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by… Read the whole commentary →