Acts 18:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves `to it', for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'

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  • Acts 23:29 : 29 whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;
  • Acts 25:19 : 19 but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,
  • Acts 25:11 : 11 for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
  • Acts 26:3 : 3 especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --
  • Acts 24:6-8 : 6 who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, 7 and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, 8 having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'
  • John 18:31 : 31 Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

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  • Acts 18:11-14
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    11and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

    12And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

    13saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

    14and Paul being about to open `his' mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, `If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16and he drave them from the tribunal;

    17and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating `him' before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.

  • Acts 19:36-40
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    36these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

    37`For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;

    38if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artificers with him with any one have a matter, court `days' are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.

    39`And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;

    40for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;'

  • Acts 25:20-21
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    20and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --

    21but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.'

  • Acts 25:8-11
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    8he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'

    9And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'

    10and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

    11for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

    4for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

  • Acts 25:15-18
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    15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

    16unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him'.

    17`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding `day' having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

    18concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against `him' no accusation of the things I was thinking of,

  • John 8:15
    70%

    15`Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

  • Acts 24:10
    69%

    10And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

  • Acts 23:28-29
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    28and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,

    29whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

  • Acts 16:21
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    21and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.'

  • Acts 28:17-19
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    69%

    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

    18who, having examined me, were wishing to release `me', because of their being no cause of death in me,

    19and the Jews having spoken against `it', I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

  • 1 Cor 6:1
    68%

    1Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

  • Acts 25:5-6
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    5`Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;'

    6and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;

  • 1 Cor 6:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

    5unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

  • Luke 12:57
    68%

    57`And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

  • Acts 24:20-21
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    67%

    20or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

    21except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

  • Acts 18:6
    67%

    6and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

  • John 18:31
    67%

    31Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

  • Acts 24:8
    67%

    8having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6and saith unto the judges, `See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who `is' with you in the matter of judgment;

  • 1 Cor 5:12
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    12for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

  • Acts 26:3
    67%

    3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

  • Luke 12:14
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    14And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'

  • Acts 15:19
    66%

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

  • Acts 25:26
    66%

    26concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to `my' lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

  • Acts 23:3
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    3then Paul said unto him, `God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou -- thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!'

  • Acts 4:19
    66%

    19and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;