Acts 15:19

19 Therefore my sentence is that those from among the Gentiles who are converted to God not be troubled,

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 men that are left might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who does all these things.

18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

19 Therefore my sentence is that those from among the Gentiles who are converted to God not be troubled,

20 but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

21 For Moses of old time has in every city those that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.