Acts 20:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι ὑμῖν πᾶσαν τὴν βουλὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

Not for hypesteilamēn of the not anangeilai to-you all the boulēn of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *hypesteilamēn*: aorist indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I kept back
• *anangeilai*: aorist infinitive, active - to declare
• *boulēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - counsel/purpose
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *hypesteilamēn*: I kept back/withheld/shrunk from
• *anangeilai*: to declare/announce/proclaim
• *boulēn*: counsel/purpose/will/plan
• *Theou*: God/deity

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For{G1063} I {G5288} shrank{G5288} not{G3756} from{G3361} declaring{G312} unto you{G5213} the whole{G3956} counsel{G1012} of God.{G2316}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For{G1063} I have{G5288} not{G3756}{G3361} shunned{G5288}{(G5668)} to declare{G312}{(G5658)} unto you{G5213} all{G3956} the counsel{G1012} of God{G2316}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For I have kepte nothinge backe: but have shewed you all the counsell of God.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For I haue kepte nothinge backe, but haue shewed you all the councell off God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For I haue kept nothing backe, but haue shewed you all the counsell of God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For I haue kept nothyng backe, but haue shewed you all ye counsell of God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

• World English Bible (2000)

  for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:20 : 20 how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
• Luke 7:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not being baptized by him.
• Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed:
• Gal 1:7-9 : 7 Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
• Eph 1:11 : 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will:
• 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 But as we were allowed by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
• Gal 4:16 : 16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
• Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
• John 15:15 : 15 From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
• Ps 32:11 : 11 Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
• Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the 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 who executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
• Jer 23:22 : 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
• Acts 26:22-23 : 22 Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come: 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
• 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I have received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread.
• 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.