Acts 15:19

In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God,

Twentieth Century 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

18Says the Lord, as he does these things, foreknown from of old.’

20but we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

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Cross References

Acts 15:24As we had heard that some of our number had upset you by their assertions, and unsettled your minds — without instructions from us —

Acts 26:20on the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.

Galatians 2:4But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery —

1 Thessalonians 1:9Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living 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 →

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