Verse 12

for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 15:2 : 2 and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;
  • Acts 11:2-3 : 2 and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him, 3 saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',
  • Eph 3:6 : 6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,
  • Matt 26:69-75 : 69 And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!' 70 And he denied before all, saying, `I have not known what thou sayest.' 71 And he having gone forth to the porch, another female saw him, and saith to those there, `And this one was with Jesus of Nazareth;' 72 and again did he deny with an oath -- `I have not known the man.' 73 And after a little those standing near having come, said to Peter, `Truly thou also art of them, for even thy speech doth make thee manifest.' 74 Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow, 75 and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him -- `Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;' and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 from all appearance of evil abstain ye;
  • Eph 2:15 : 15 the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,
  • Eph 2:19-22 : 19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone', 21 in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, 22 in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.
  • Isa 57:11 : 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid `it' to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest not?
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These `are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
  • Acts 21:18-25 : 18 and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came, 19 and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration, 20 and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law, 21 and 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; 22 what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come. 23 `This, therefore, do that we say to thee: We have four men having a vow on themselves, 24 these 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. 25 `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'