Act 18:15
But 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, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}
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.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: {so do}.
Especially {because I know} thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but {that} rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed {his} hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye {to it}.
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What {is that} to us? see thou {to that}.
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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 the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know {them}, because they are spiritually discerned.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth {it} not, then cometh the wicked {one}, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What {is that} to us? see thou {to that}.
Saying, This {fellow} persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: