Acts 15:19

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

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 So outsiders who seek will find, so they'll have a place to come to, All the pagan peoples included in what I'm doing.

18 It's no afterthought; he's always known he would do this.

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

20 We'll write them a letter and tell them, 'Be careful to not get involved in activities connected with idols, to guard the morality of sex and marriage, to not serve food offensive to Jewish Christians - blood, for instance.'

21 This is basic wisdom from Moses, preached and honored for centuries now in city after city as we have met and kept the Sabbath."