Acts 18:15
But if the contests are about words, and about names, and concerning your law, ye must see to it among yourselves, for I am not disposed to be a judge of such matters.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
16And he repelled them from his judgment-seat.
Cross References
Matthew 27:4and said: I have sinned, by betraying innocent blood. And they said: What is that to us? See to it thyself.
John 18:31Pilate said to them: Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him: It is not lawful for us to put a man to death:
Acts 24:6And he was disposed to pollute our temple. And having seized him we wished to judge him according to our law.
Acts 25:19but they had certain controversies with him respecting their worship, and respecting one Jesus, who died, but who, as Paul said, was alive.
1 Timothy 1:4and not to throw themselves into fables and stories about genealogies, of which there is no end, which produce contention rather than edification in the faith of God.
2 Timothy 2:23Avoid those foolish discussions which afford no instruction; for thou knowest, that they generate contests.
Matthew Henry on Acts 18:13-18
Paul Visits Corinth. 12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, 13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. 14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of… Read the whole commentary →