Acts 20:27 Cross References

Acts 20:27

27: for I didn't shrink from declaring all that God wants for you.

Yet I never shrank from telling you the truth, either publicly or in your homes.

We reject all shameful and underhanded methods. We do not try to trick anyone, and we do not distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know that.

For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.

Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.

But the Pharisees and experts in religious law had rejected God's plan for them, for they had refused John's baptism.

that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ.
Let God's curse fall on anyone, including myself, who preaches any other message than the one we told you about. Even if an angel comes from heaven and preaches any other message, let him be forever cursed.
I will say it again: If anyone preaches any other gospel than the one you welcomed, let God's curse fall upon that person.
Obviously, I'm not trying to be a people pleaser! No, I am trying to please God. If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.

So rejoice in the LORD and be glad, all you who obey him! Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure!

Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

But you followed God's prearranged plan. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to the cross and murdered him.

Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.
I will call a swift bird of prey from the east--a leader from a distant land who will come and do my bidding. I have said I would do it, and I will.

But God protected me so that I am still alive today to tell these facts to everyone, from the least to the greatest. I teach nothing except what the prophets and Moses said would happen--
that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead as a light to Jews and Gentiles alike."

For this is what the Lord himself said, and I pass it on to you just as I received it. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took a loaf of bread,

And I have been a constant example of how you can help the poor by working hard. You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

Now this is not a reference to David, for after David had served his generation according to the will of God, he died and was buried, and his body decayed.

I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

If they had listened to me, they would have spoken my words and turned my people from their evil ways.

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