Acts 20:27 “For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.”

Acts 20:27

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

World English Bible

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

American Standard Version

For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I haue kept nothing backe, but haue shewed you all the counsell of God.

Darby Translation

for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.

Young's Literal Translation

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

Bible in Basic English

For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

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Cross references

“I have”

Acts 20:20 1 Thessalonians 2:4 2 Corinthians 4:2 Galatians 1:7–10 Galatians 4:16 Acts 20:35

Acts 20:20 · BSB

I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

1 Thessalonians 2:4 · BSB

Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.

2 Corinthians 4:2 · BSB

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the…

Galatians 1:7–10 · BSB

which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.

Galatians 4:16 · BSB

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Acts 20:35 · BSB

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

“all”

Jeremiah 23:22 Acts 2:23 Psalm 32:11 Luke 7:30 1 Corinthians 11:23 Ephesians 1:11

Jeremiah 23:22 · BSB

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

Acts 2:23 · BSB

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Psalm 32:11 · BSB

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

Luke 7:30 · BSB

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

1 Corinthians 11:23 · BSB

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

Ephesians 1:11 · BSB

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

Also

Acts 13:36

Acts 13:36 · BSB

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

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