Acts 15:19

19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

Acts 15:19 in Other Translations

19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,

19 “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

19 "So here is my decision: We're not going to unnecessarily burden non-Jewish people who turn to the Master.

19 Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those who turn to God from among the Gentiles,

Acts 15:19 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 15:19

Wherefore my sentence is
Opinion or judgment in this case, or what he reckoned most advisable to be done; for he did not impose his sense upon the whole body, but proposed it to them:

that we trouble not them;
by obliging them to be circumcised, which would have been very afflicting and disturbing to them; not only because of the corporeal pain produced by circumcision, but because of the bondage their minds would be brought into, and they become subject to the whole law, and all its burdensome rites and ceremonies:

which from among the Gentiles are turned to God;
the one true and living God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and from idols, and the worshipping of them.

Acts 15:19 In-Context

17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’ —

18 things known from long ago.

19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”