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Acts 15:2
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Acts 15:2
2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissention and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certeine other of them, should goe vp to Hierusalem vnto the Apostles and Elders about this question.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 15:2
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
dissension
Disagreement, contention, or strife.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
disputation
Reasoning, debate, argument, or contention over a question.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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determined
Ended; concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled; resolved; directed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sure, definite, established, or particular though not specifically named, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons sent forth with authority; messengers or ambassadors, especially those commissioned by Christ.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A matter asked or disputed; to inquire, examine, or reason about.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study22Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
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Open the full verse study6¶ And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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Open the full verse study1THEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
2And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
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Open the full verse study5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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Open the full verse study30Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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Open the full verse study4And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
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Open the full verse study6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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Open the full verse study5To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
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Open the full verse study19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
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Open the full verse study7And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
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Open the full verse study23Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
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Open the full verse study12And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:
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Open the full verse study25It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
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Open the full verse study27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
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Open the full verse study4And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study18And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.
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Open the full verse study23If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
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Open the full verse study3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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Open the full verse study8Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
9Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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