Acts 20:27

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Acts 20:20 : 20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
  • Luke 7:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
  • Gal 1:7-9 : 7 which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema. 9 As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema. 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
  • John 15:15 : 15 No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.
  • Ps 32:11 : 11 Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous; And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
  • Isa 46:10-11 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
  • Jer 23:22 : 22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • Acts 26:22-23 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come; 23 how that the Christ must suffer, [and] how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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    18And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time,

    19serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

    20how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

    21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

    22And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

    23save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

    25And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

    26Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

  • Acts 20:31-33
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    31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

    32And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

    33I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

  • Acts 20:28-29
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    28Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

    29I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

  • Ps 40:9-10
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    9I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

    10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

  • Prov 22:20
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    20Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

  • Col 1:25
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    25whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

  • Acts 26:22
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    22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;

  • Acts 23:1
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    1And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.

  • Col 1:28
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    28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

  • Rom 15:18-20
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    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

    20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

  • Jer 17:16
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    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

  • Acts 24:20
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    20Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,

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    19Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

  • Acts 22:15
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    15For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

  • Gal 1:11
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    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

  • Acts 28:31
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    31preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Acts 26:26
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    26For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him; for this hath not been done in a corner.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 2 Tim 1:11-12
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    11whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

    12For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you] .

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • Rom 1:16
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    16For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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    1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

  • 1 Thess 2:5
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    5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

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    32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

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    14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • 1 Tim 1:11
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    11according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  • Gal 1:20
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    20Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

  • Ps 18:21
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    21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Jer 42:21
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    21and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.