KJV King James Version
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
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Acts 20:27
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
WEB World English Bible
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
ASV American Standard Version
For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
Surrounding context — Acts 20
24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men].
27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
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Acts 20:20[And] how I kept back nothing that was profitable [unto you], but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,1 Thessalonians 2:4But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.2 Corinthians 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.Galatians 4:16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?Galatians 1:7-10Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.Jeremiah 23:22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.Ephesians 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:1 Corinthians 11:23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:Psalm 32:11Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.Matthew 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.Acts 26:22-23Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:Isaiah 46:10-11Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:John 15:15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.Acts 13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
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