Paul’s Second Missionary Journey Begins
Acts 15:38
In 9 translations
- BSB
- But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
- KJV
- But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
- WEB
- But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
- ASV
- But Paul thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
- LSV
- and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;
- YLT
- and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;
- DBY
- but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.
- DRC
- But Paul desired that he (as having departed from them out of Pamphylia, and not gone with them to the work) might not be received.
- GNV
- But Paul thought it not meete to take him vnto their companie, which departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the worke.
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- NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles read συμπαραλαμβάνειν (“to take along”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read συμπαραλαβεῖν (“to take along”); Tyndale House, Westcott–Hort read συνπαραλαμβάνειν (“to take along”).
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- SBLGNT: συμπαραλαμβάνειν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read συμπαραλαμβάνειν; Robinson–Pierpont read συμπαραλαβεῖν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Παῦλος δὲ ἠξίου, τὸν ἀποστάντα ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Παμφυλίας καὶ μὴ συνελθόντα αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸ ἔργον, μὴ συμπαραλαμβάνειν τοῦτον.
- RP2018
- Παῦλος δὲ ἠξίου, τὸν ἀποστάντα ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Παμφυλίας, καὶ μὴ συνελθόντα αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸ ἔργον, μὴ συμπαραλαβεῖν τοῦτον.
- TR-Boyd
- Παῦλος δὲ ἠξίου, τὸν ἀποστάντα ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Παμφυλίας, καὶ μὴ συνελθόντα αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸ ἔργον, μὴ συμπαραλαβεῖν τοῦτον.
- SCR1894
- παυλος δε ηξιου τον αποσταντα απ αυτων απο παμφυλιας και μη συνελθοντα αυτοις εις το εργον μη συμπαραλαβειν τουτον
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Cross-references most cited first
- Acts 13:13After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.
- James 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
- Luke 14:27–34And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it? Otherwise, if…
- Proverbs 25:19Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- Psalms 78:9The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
- Luke 9:61Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
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