Acts 20:27

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 20:20 : 20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
  • Luke 7:30 : 30 However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.
  • Gal 1:7-9 : 7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we(or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! 9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell! 10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,
  • John 15:15 : 15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
  • Ps 32:11 : 11 Rejoice in the LORD and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright!
  • Isa 46:10-11 : 10 who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says,‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’ 11 who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.
  • Jer 23:22 : 22 But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and 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 I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen: 23 that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
  • 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 20:18-26
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    18When they arrived, he said to them,“You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

    19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

    20You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

    21testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

    22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

    23except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

    24But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

    25“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

    26Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

  • Acts 20:31-33
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    31Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

    32And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

    33I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

  • Acts 20:28-29
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    28Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

    29I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

  • Ps 40:9-10
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    9I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O LORD, you know this is true.

    10I have not failed to tell about your justice; I spoke about your reliability and deliverance; I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness.

  • Prov 22:20
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    20Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

  • Col 1:25
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    25I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God– given to me for you– in order to complete the word of God,

  • Acts 26:22
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    22I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:

  • Acts 23:1
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    1Paul looked directly at the council and said,“Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

  • Col 1:28
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    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

  • Rom 15:18-20
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

    20And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

  • Jer 17:16
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    16But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

  • Acts 24:20
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    20Or these men here should tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the council,

  • Acts 26:19
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    19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We did this as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

  • Acts 22:15
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    15because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

  • Gal 1:11
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    11Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

  • Acts 28:31
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    31proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22For I have obeyed the LORD’s commands; I have not rebelled against my God.

  • Acts 26:26
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    26For the king knows about these things, and I am speaking freely to him, because I cannot believe that any of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 2 Tim 1:11-12
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    11For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.

    12Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Salvation Based on the Word of God Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  • Rom 1:16
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    16The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

  • 1 Cor 2:1
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    1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

  • 1 Thess 2:5
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    5For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–

  • 1 Cor 10:32
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    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

  • 1 Tim 1:11
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    11This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

  • Gal 1:20
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    20I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

  • Ps 18:21
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    21For I have obeyed the LORD’s commands; I have not rebelled against my God.

  • Jer 42:21
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    21This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the LORD your God by doing what he sent me to tell you.