15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
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Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)We have here an account of some disturbance given to Paul and his friends at Corinth, but no great harm done, nor much hindrance given to the work of Christ there. I. Paul is accused by the Jews before the Roman governor, Acts 18:12 , 13 . The governor was Gallio, deputy of Achaia , that is, proconsul; for Achaia was a consular province of the empire. This Gallio was elder brother to the famous Se…
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