Acts 20:27 Meaning and Explanation
“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →His innocence rests on this: he did not shrink from declaring to them the whole counsel of God.
What Does Acts 20:27 Mean?
Here is why no one's blood is on Paul's hands (v. 26): he declared God's counsel whole — the entire saving purpose and plan, its comforts and its commands, its warnings and its promises. The verb translated "shunned" is the same one rendered "kept back" in v. 20: he never once drew back from any part of it.
God's counsel is a whole, and a half-taught gospel forms half-taught disciples. Paul trusted his hearers with everything — judgment and mercy, the cross and the crown — and that completeness is still the church's curriculum. Those who receive the whole counsel of God are furnished for the whole of life (2 Tim 3:16-17).
Acts 20:27 in the Original Language
boule (βουλή), 'counsel' -- purpose, plan; the whole of what God has willed and made known.
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What does Acts 20:27 mean?
His innocence rests on this: he did not shrink from declaring to them the whole counsel of God.