Acts 18:15 Parallel Translations

But since you're disputing words, names, and your own teachings, you'll have to take care of that yourselves. I don't want to be a judge who gets involved in those things."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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 such matters.

ASV:

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

BBE:

But if it is a question of words or names or of your law, see to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of such things.

DBY:

but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law that ye have, see to it yourselves; for I do not intend to be judge of these things.

ERV:

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

WEY:

But since these are questions about words and names and your Law, you yourselves must see to them. I refuse to be a judge in such matters."

WBS:

But if it is a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it: for I will be no judge of such matters.

WEB:

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

YLT:

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,'

Acts 18:15 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 23:29 and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.

Acts 25:19 but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:15 But if it be a question of {h} words and {i} names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters].
(h) As if a man has not spoken well, as judged by your religion.
(i) For this profane man thinks that the controversy of religion is merely a fight about words, and over nothing important.

PNT:

18:14,15 Gallio said unto the Jews. Without suffering Paul to reply, he at once rebuked the Jews, who were evidently not in his favor. His rebuke shows that he ignorantly regarded Christianity as a kind of Judaism, and thought that the enmity of the Jews was due to the rivalry of sects. To him it was a question of words and names, and of the Jewish law.

WES:

18:15 But if it be - He speaks with the utmost coolness and contempt, a question of names - The names of the heathen gods were fables and shadows. But the question concerning the name of Jesus is of more importance than all things else under heaven. Yet there is this singularity (among a thousand others) in the Christian religion, that human reason, curious as it is in all other things, abhors to inquire into it.

MHC:

18:12-17 Paul was about to show that he did not teach men to worship God contrary to law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him of what was not within his office. It was right in Gallio that he left the Jews to themselves in matters relating to their religion, but yet would not let them, under pretence of that, persecute another. But it was wrong to speak slightly of a law and religion which he might have known to be of God, and which he ought to have acquainted himself with. In what way God is to be worshipped, whether Jesus be the Messiah, and whether the gospel be a Divine revelation, are not questions of words and names, they are questions of vast importance. Gallio spoke as if he boasted of his ignorance of the Scriptures, as if the law of God was beneath his notice. Gallio cared for none of these things. If he cared not for the affronts of bad men, it was commendable; but if he concerned not himself for the abuses done to good men, his indifference was carried too far. And those who see and hear of the sufferings of God's people, and have no feeling with them, or care for them, who do not pity and pray for them, are of the same spirit as Gallio, who cared for none of these things.

CONC:

Intend Judge Law Matter Matters Minded Names Question Questions Refuse Settle Unwilling Wish Yourselves

Intend Involves Judge Law Matter Matters Minded Names Question Questions Refuse Settle Unwilling Want Wish Words Yourselves

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