Acts 20:27
Good News Translation
For I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

New Revised Standard Version
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

Contemporary English Version
I have told you everything God wants you to know.

New American Bible
for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

I have.

Acts 20:20,35 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, . . .

Acts 26:22,23 But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass: . . .

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

Galatians 1:7-10 Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. . . .

Galatians 4:16 Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts.

all.

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Psalm 32:11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

Jeremiah 23:22 If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their wicked doings.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

John 15:15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

1 Corinthians 11:23 For 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,

Ephesians 1:11 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
26Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men. 27For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God. 28Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.…
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 42:21
And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to you.

Ezekiel 40:4
And this man said to me: Son of man, see with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for thou art brought hither that they may be shewn to thee: declare all that thou seest, to the house of Israel.

Acts 13:36
For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

Acts 20:20
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,

Acts 20:26
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