Acts 15:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ But Paul decided not to take with them one who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ But Paul did not think it best to have along with them the one who had quit and deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ But Paul thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Paul insisted that they shouldn’t take him along, since he had deserted them in Pamphylia and hadn’t continued with them in their work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ But Paul was saying that he ought not to be received, since he withdrew from them at Pamphylia, and he had not gone with them in the work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ 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.

Acts 15:38 Cross References

Psalm 78:9

The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

Proverbs 25:19

Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is trust in a faithless person in time of trouble.

Luke 9:61

Another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”

Acts 13:13

Then Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and returned to Jerusalem,

Acts 2:10

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,