Acts 20:27

For I have not held back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

28So keep watch over yourselves and over the entire flock. The Holy Spirit has appointed you as their overseers, to shepherd the church of our Lord and God, which he obtained with his own blood.

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Cross References

Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Acts 2:23this man, who was delivered up by the deliberate plan and foreknowledge of God, you took and put to death, having him nailed to the cross by the hands of lawless men.

Acts 20:20You know that I did not hold back from declaring to you anything that was beneficial, and from teaching you in public and from house to house,

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:18-36

Paul's Address to the Elders of Ephesus. 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, 19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: 20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you… Read the whole commentary →

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