Acts 18:15 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 18:15

But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Of words - A dispute about words, for such he would regard all their controversies about religion to be. And names - Probably he had heard something of the nature of the controversy, and understood it to be a dispute about names; that is, whether Jesus was to be called the Messiah or not. To him this would appear as a matter pertaining to the Jews alone, and to be ranked with their other disputes arising from the difference of sect and name.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Paul was going about to make his defence, and to show that he did not teach men to worship God contrary to the law; but the judge, being resolved not to pass any sentence upon this cause, would not give himself the trouble of examining it. He shows himself very ready to do the part of a judge in any matter that it was proper for him to take cognizance of.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ζητήματά	zētēmata	questions	G2213 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
λόγου	logou	a word	G3056 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὀνομάτων	onomatōn	names	G3686 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
νόμου	nomou	law	G3551 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
καθ᾽	kath᾽	of	G2596 →
ὑμᾶς,	humas	yours,	G4771 →
ὄψεσθε	opsesthe	you will behold	G3700 →
αὐτοί·	autoi	[to it] yourselves;	G846 →
κριτὴς	kritēs	a judge	G2923 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
τούτων	toutōn	of these things	G3778 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
βούλομαι	boulomai	resolve	G1014 →
εἶναι.	einai	to be.	G1511 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 2:14
  Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Timothy 2:23
  But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Timothy 4:7
  But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Timothy 2:16
  But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 1:14
  and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
Through
2 Timothy 2:23
But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
leads to
- Titus 3:9
  But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.
- 1 Timothy 6:4–5
  he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
Through
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
leads to
- 2 Timothy 3:4
  traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts