Acts 15:38

and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

Literal Standard Version

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 resolved to take with [them] John called Mark,

39there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus,

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:19A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, || [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

Luke 14:27and whoever does not carry his cross, and come after Me, is not able to be My disciple.

James 1:8a soul-split man [is] 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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