Apostelgeschichte 20:27
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Studiennotiz
Study Note
Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders includes the self-attestation that 'I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God' — a claim that makes completeness of proclamation a mark of faithful apostolic ministry. The phrase 'the whole counsel of God' (pasan tēn boulēn tou theou) has been interpreted as the totality of doctrinal teaching, the complete ethical demands of the faith, or the comprehensive plan of salvation including both judgment and grace. The verse stands as a rebuke of selective preaching that emphasizes comfort while minimizing repentance, or grace while omitting judgment. Its placement within a farewell address that anticipates persecution and departure gives it the weight of a final commission: the full counsel is entrusted to the elders who will continue the work.
Andere Übersetzungen
For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
Querverweise
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel …
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have …
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should …
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto …
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you …
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified …
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid …
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, …