Acts 15:19

19 "My judgement, therefore, is against inflicting unexpected annoyance on those of the Gentiles who are turning 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 In order that the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord--even all the nations which are called by My name,"

18 Says the Lord, who has been making these things known from ages long past.'

19 "My judgement, therefore, is against inflicting unexpected annoyance on those of the Gentiles who are turning to God.

20 Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

21 For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town, being read, as he is, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the various synagogues."