Acts 18:13

Easy-to-Read Version

They said to Gallio, "This man is teaching people to worship God in a way that is against our law!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This man,” they said, “is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”

King James Version (1611)
Saying, This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law.

King James Version
Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

English Standard Version
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law."

New American Standard Bible
saying, "This man is inciting the people to worship God contrary to the law."

New Century Version
They said, "This man is teaching people to worship God in a way that is against our law."

Amplified Bible
declaring, "This man is persuading people to worship God in violation of the law [of Moses]."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

Berean Standard Bible
"This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law," they said.

Contemporary English Version
and said, "This man is trying to make our people worship God in a way that is against our Law!"

Complete Jewish Bible
saying, "This man is trying to persuade people to worship God in ways that violate the Torah."

Darby Translation
saying, This [man] persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, This fellow persuadeth me to worship God otherwise then the Lawe appointeth.

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

Good News Translation
"This man," they said, "is trying to persuade people to worship God in a way that is against the law!"

Lexham English Bible
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!"

Literal Translation
saying, This one persuades men to worship God contrary to the Law.

American Standard Version
saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the law.

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

International Standard Version
They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law."

Etheridge Translation
saying, This (man) part from the law persuadeth men to worship Aloha.

Murdock Translation
saying: This man persuadeth the people to worship God contrary to the law.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: This felow counselleth men to worship God contrary to the lawe.

English Revised Version
saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

World English Bible
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Weymouth's New Testament
"This man," they said, "is inducing people to offer unlawful worship to God."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seiden, Ayens the lawe this counselith men to worschipe God.

Update Bible Version
saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, This [man] persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

New English Translation
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!"

New King James Version
saying, "This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

New Living Translation
They accused Paul of "persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to our law."

New Life Bible
They said, "This man is trying to get people to worship God against the Law."

New Revised Standard
They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
saying - Contrary to the law, is this one seducing men to be worshipping God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Revised Standard Version
saying, "This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
saying: this felow counceleth men to worship God contrary to ye lawe.

Young's Literal Translation
saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: This felowe counceleth men to worshipe God cotrary to the lawe.

Mace New Testament (1729)
this fellow, said they, would persuade us to set up a way of worship inconsistent with our law.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They said Paul was "Splitting God's herd with his teachings and making a mockery of our code."

Contextual Overview

¹² During the time that Gallio was the governor of Achaia, some of the Jews came together against Paul. They took him to court. ¹³ They said to Gallio, "This man is teaching people to worship God in a way that is against our law!" ¹⁴ Paul was ready to say something, but Gallio spoke to the Jews. He said, "I would listen to you if your complaint was about a crime or other wrong. ¹⁵ But it is only about words and names—arguments about your own law. So you must solve this problem yourselves. I don't want to be a judge of these matters." ¹⁶ So Gallio made them leave the court. ¹⁷ Then they all grabbed Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue. They beat him before the court. But this did not bother Gallio.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 18:4, Acts 6:13, Acts 21:28, Acts 24:5, Acts 24:6, Acts 25:8

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:17 - to destroy the law Matthew 26:61 - This Acts 16:19 - they Acts 17:6 - they drew 2 Corinthians 5:11 - we persuade 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - Forbidding

Cross-References

John 2:25
He did not need anyone to tell him what a person was like. He already knew.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, this fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. Meaning either to the law of the Romans, which forbad the bringing in of any new gods, without the leave of the senate;

:-; or rather to the law of Moses: the Arabic version reads, "our law"; though this was false, for Moses in his law wrote of Christ, and ordered the children of Israel to hearken to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Contrary to the law - Evidently intending contrary to all law - the laws of the Romans and of the Jews. It was permitted to the Jews to worship God according to their own views in Greece; but they could easily pretend that Paul had departed from that mode of worshipping God. It was easy for them to maintain that he taught contrary to the laws of the Romans and their acknowledged religion; and their design seems to have been to accuse him of teaching people to worship God in an unlawful and irregular way, a way unknown to any of the laws of the empire.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 18:13. Persuaded men to worship God contrary to the law. — This accusation was very insidious. The Jews had permission by the Romans to worship their own God in their own way: this the laws allowed. The Roman worship was also established by the law. The Jews probably intended to accuse Paul of acting contrary to both laws. "He is not a Jew, for he does not admit of circumcision; he is not a Gentile, for he preaches against the worship of the gods. He is setting up a worship of his own, in opposition to all laws, and persuading many people to join with him: he is therefore a most dangerous man, and should be put to death."