1 Samuel 3:17-18

3:17 Eli ¹  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ²  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

3:18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli ³  said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” ⁴ 

Psalms 40:10

40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; ⁵ 

I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;

I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. ⁶ 

Acts 20:20

20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ⁷  to you anything that would be helpful, ⁸  and from teaching you publicly ⁹  and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

20:27 For I did not hold back from ¹⁰  announcing ¹¹  to you the whole purpose ¹²  of God.

[3:17]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ² tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

[3:18]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[40:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”

[40:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”

[20:20]  ⁷ tn Or “declaring.”

[20:20]  ⁸ tn Or “profitable.” BDAG 960 s.v. συμφέρω 2.b.α has “τὰ συμφέροντα what advances your best interests or what is good for you Ac 20:20,” but the broader meaning (s.v. 2, “to be advantageous, help, confer a benefit, be profitable/useful”) is equally possible in this context.

[20:20]  ⁹ tn Or “openly.”

[20:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”

[20:27]  ¹¹ tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”

[20:27]  ¹² tn Or “plan.”