Acts 20:20
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How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house,

I kept.

Acts 20:27,31 For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God. . . .

Acts 5:2 And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Deuteronomy 4:5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

Psalm 40:9,10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. . . .

Ezekiel 33:7-9 So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

profitable.

1 Corinthians 12:7 And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

1 Corinthians 14:6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine?

Philippians 3:1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary.

2 Timothy 3:16,17 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: . . .

and have.

Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.

Acts 2:46 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

Acts 5:42 And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

Mark 4:34 And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
19Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews: 20How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, 21Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.…
Cross References
Psalm 40:10
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.

Jeremiah 26:2
Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not out one word.

Jeremiah 42:4
And Jeremiah the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.

Acts 20:27
For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God.

Lexicon
I did not shrink back
ὑπεστειλάμην (hypesteilamēn)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5288: From hupo and stello; to withhold under, i.e. to cower or shrink, to conceal.

from declaring
ἀναγγεῖλαι (anangeilai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 312: To bring back word, report; I announce, declare. From ana and the base of aggelos; to announce.

[anything]
οὐδὲν (ouden)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3762: No one, none, nothing.

that
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

was helpful
συμφερόντων (sympherontōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 4851: From sun and phero; to bear together, i.e. to collect, or to conduce; especially advantage.

to you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

[as]
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

I taught
διδάξαι (didaxai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 1321: To teach, direct, admonish. A prolonged form of a primary verb dao; to teach.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

publicly
δημοσίᾳ (dēmosia)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 1219: Public, publicly. From demos; public; in public.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

from
κατ’ (kat’)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined).

house to house,
οἴκους (oikous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3624: A dwelling; by implication, a family.


Additional Translations
I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

how I did not shrink back from declaring to you anything being profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,

how that I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have shown you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,

how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,
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