Acts 18:15

13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

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.

16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.

17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
But if it is a question about a word and names and in reference to your⁺ law, you⁺ will see yourselves. I resolve not to be a judge of these things.”
ÅB
men er det spørsmål om en lære og om navn og om deres lov, da får det bli deres sak; dommer i disse ting vil jeg ikke være.
OTB
men siden det gjelder spørsmål om ord og navn og deres egen lov, se til det selv. Jeg nekter å være dommer over slike saker.»
B1930
men er det spørsmål om en lære og om navn og om eders lov, da får det bli eders sak; dommer i disse ting vil jeg ikke være.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 23:29

    Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

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  • Acts 25:19

    But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

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  • 1 Timothy 6:4

    He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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  • Acts 25:11

    For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.

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  • 1 Timothy 1:4

    Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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  • Acts 26:3

    Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

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  • 2 Timothy 2:23

    But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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  • Titus 3:9

    But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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