Acts 20:27

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Acts 20:27

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

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this Man, when handed over [to the Roman authorities] according to the predetermined decision and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross and put to death by the hands of lawless and godless men.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous [who actively seek right standing with Him];
Shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’

“But if they had stood in My council,
Then they would have caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned My people from their evil way
And from the evil of their decisions and deeds.

teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”

But the Pharisees and the lawyers [who were experts in the Mosaic Law] annulled and set aside God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.

For I received from the Lord Himself that [instruction] which I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

In Him also we have received an inheritance [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will,

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You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land.

and you are to teach the Israelites all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

So Moses spoke to the Israelites in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded him.

I commanded you at that time [regarding] all the things that you should do.

“Look, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may do them in the land which you are entering to possess.

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended:

Nathan spoke to David in accordance with all these words and all of this vision.

A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who speaks lies is treacherous.

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been kept secret, but that it would come to light [that is, things are hidden only temporarily, until the appropriate time comes for them to be known].