for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Paul sent for these elders not to leave them, but to instruct and encourage them in the work they had undertaken. His life among them, serious, gracious, heavenly, no self-seeking, proved God was truly with him and animated him by a better spirit than his own.
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Commenting on Acts 20:17-35
False teachers will arise from within your own churches, men you once welcomed as brothers. They speak perverse things, twisting Scripture to suit themselves, and they draw disciples away to form their own sects. Guard against them.
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I never concealed truth from fear of offending you or losing your favor. A minister may hide doctrine by avoiding it altogether, by burying it among other subjects, by clouding it in philosophy, or by using words that obscure rather than clarify. I did none of these things.
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