Acts 20:20
Good News Translation
You know that I did not hold back anything that would be of help to you as I preached and taught in public and in your homes.

New Revised Standard Version
I did not shrink from doing anything helpful, proclaiming the message to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Contemporary English Version
When I preached in public or taught in your homes, I didn't hold back from telling anything that would help you.

New American Bible
and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house,

I kept.

Acts 20:27,31 For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God. . . .

Acts 5:2 And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Deuteronomy 4:5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

Psalm 40:9,10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. . . .

Ezekiel 33:7-9 So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

profitable.

1 Corinthians 12:7 And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

1 Corinthians 14:6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine?

Philippians 3:1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary.

2 Timothy 3:16,17 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: . . .

and have.

Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.

Acts 2:46 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

Acts 5:42 And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

Mark 4:34 And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
19Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews: 20How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, 21Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.…
Cross References
Psalm 40:10
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.

Jeremiah 26:2
Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not out one word.

Jeremiah 42:4
And Jeremiah the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.

Acts 20:27
For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God.

Acts 20:19
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