Acts 15:19

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

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 residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

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

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

20 But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] lewdness, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.

21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.