Acts 15:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,

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  • Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
  • Gal 5:12 : 12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
  • Gal 1:7 : 7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.
  • Jer 23:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Ye do not hearken unto the words Of the prophets who are prophesying to you, They are making you vain things, A vision of their own heart they speak, Not from the mouth of Jehovah.
  • Gal 2:3-4 : 3 but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised -- 4 and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
  • Acts 15:9-9 : 9 and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts; 10 now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Gal 6:12-13 : 12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted, 13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

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    25it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --

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    1And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'

    2there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

  • Acts 15:23
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    23having written through their hand thus: `The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who `are' of the nations, greeting;

  • Acts 15:27-30
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    27we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.

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    29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

    30They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,

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    19wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

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  • Acts 15:4-6
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    4And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;

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    21And they said unto him, `We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee,

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    21and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

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    7that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

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    3this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

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  • Acts 21:23-25
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    23`This, therefore, do that we say to thee: We have four men having a vow on themselves,

    24these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.

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    20and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, `These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;

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    3but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

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    10I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

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    14But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

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    12O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

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    10now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

  • 1 Thess 2:15-16
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    15who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,

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    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

    13for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

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    2and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,

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    6And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

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    2and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;

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  • Acts 13:15
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    15and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

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    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

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    12And when we heard these things, we called upon `him' -- both we, and those of that place -- not to go up to Jerusalem,

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    30which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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