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NASB | Acts 21:23 "Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 21:23 "Therefore do just what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow; |
Subject: Why did Paul do it? For conscience sake? |
Bible Note: Dear MJH, That legalism of yours is very dear to you indeed, son. I am happy to be the recipient of your hisses. Oh that some of my family would exchange their utterly failed self-righteousness for the righteousness of Christ. Still, my conscience is clear in Christ when I abide by the dietary laws of kashrut when I am with them. If the apostles were in error, then may I be found in the same error! "To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it." (1 Corinthians 9:20-23 NASB) I will never, ever understand the love of the chains of the Law by Judaizing gentiles, when those who were given the Law were utterly unable to bear it (Acts 15:10). In Him, Doc |