27 For I have not [a]shunned to declare to you (A)the whole counsel of God.

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  1. Acts 20:27 avoided declaring

27 For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.(A)

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20 how (A)I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,

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20 You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything(A) that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.

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But as (A)we have been approved by God (B)to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, (C)not as pleasing men, but God (D)who tests our hearts.

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On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.(A) We are not trying to please people(B) but God, who tests our hearts.(C)

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16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

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16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?(A)

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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor [a]handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth (A)commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 4:2 adulterating the word of God

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways;(A) we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God.(B) On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience(C) in the sight of God.

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(A)which is not another; but there are some (B)who trouble you and want to (C)pervert[a] the gospel of Christ. But even if (D)we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be [b]accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you (E)than what you have received, let him be accursed.

10 For (F)do I now (G)persuade men, or God? Or (H)do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

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  1. Galatians 1:7 distort
  2. Galatians 1:8 Gr. anathema

which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion(A) and are trying to pervert(B) the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,(C) let them be under God’s curse!(D) As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted,(E) let them be under God’s curse!

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?(F) If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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23 Him, (A)being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, (B)you [a]have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

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  1. Acts 2:23 NU omits have taken

23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge;(A) and you, with the help of wicked men,[a] put him to death by nailing him to the cross.(B)

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  1. Acts 2:23 Or of those not having the law (that is, Gentiles)

30 But the Pharisees and [a]lawyers rejected (A)the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

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  1. Luke 7:30 the experts in the law

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

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20 (A)teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am (B)with you always, even to the end of the age.” [a]Amen.

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  1. Matthew 28:20 NU omits Amen.

20 and teaching(A) them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you(B) always, to the very end of the age.”(C)

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11 (A)Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous;
And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

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11 Rejoice in the Lord(A) and be glad, you righteous;
    sing, all you who are upright in heart!

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11 (A)In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to (B)the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

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11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined(A) according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose(B) of his will,

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  1. Ephesians 1:11 Or were made heirs

Institution of the Lord’s Supper(A)

23 For (B)I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: (C)that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;

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23 For I received from the Lord(A) what I also passed on to you:(B) The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,

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22 Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those (A)which the prophets and (B)Moses said would come— 23 (C)that the Christ would suffer, (D)that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and (E)would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

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22 But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen(A) 23 that the Messiah would suffer(B) and, as the first to rise from the dead,(C) would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”(D)

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