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Acts 20:27

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25 Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.

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

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

28 Keep 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.

29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
KJV
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
WEB
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
ASV
For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
DARBY
for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.
BLB
For I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you⁺ the whole counsel of God.
ÅB
for jeg holdt ikke noe tilbake, men forkynte dere hele Guds råd.
OTB
For jeg nølte ikke med å forkynne for dere hele Guds plan.
B1930
for jeg holdt ikke noget tilbake, men forkynte eder hele Guds råd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Acts 20:20

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

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  • 1 Thessalonians 2:4

    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.

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:2

    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 sight of God.

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  • Galatians 4:16

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

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  • Jeremiah 23:22

    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.”

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  • Galatians 1:7–10

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

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  • Acts 20:35

    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.’”

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  • Luke 7:30

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

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