Bible in Basic English
"And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,"
— Acts 20:20, Bible in Basic English
“And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,”
“how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,”
“You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,”
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the rulers of the church.
And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,
Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:
And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.