Acts 20:27 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²⁷ For I have not shrunk from announcing the whole purpose of God regarding you.

²⁰ And teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age."

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the Students of the Law, having rejected John's baptism, frustrated God's purpose in regard to them.)

¹⁵ I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

²³ He, I say, in accordance with God's definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.

³⁶ David, after obediently doing God's will in his own time, 'fell asleep and was laid by the side of his ancestors, and did undergo corruption;

²⁰ I never shrank from telling you anything that could be helpful to you, or from teaching you both in public and in private.

³⁵ I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

²² However I have received help from God to this very day, and so stand here, and bear my testimony to high and low alike--without adding a word to what the Prophets, as well as Moses, declared should happen-- ²³ That the Christ must suffer, and that, by rising from the dead, he was destined to be the first to bring news of Light, not only to our nation, but also to the Gentiles."

²³ For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

² No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God's Message, and commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the Truth.

⁷ Which is really no Good News at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the Good News of the Christ. ⁸ Yet even if we--or if an angel from Heaven were to tell you any other 'Good News' than that which we told you, may he be accursed! ⁹ We have said it before, and I repeat it now--If any one tells you a 'Good News' other than that which you received, may he be accursed! ¹⁰ Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

¹⁶ Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?

¹¹ In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God's Heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose;

⁴ But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.