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Whom we preach, warningf every man, and teachingh every man in all wisdom; thatk we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

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Acts 20:28,31• ²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.
³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears. (Acts 20:28,31)

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2 Tim. 2:24‑25• ²⁴And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;
²⁵in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth, (2 Tim. 2:24‑25)

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2 Cor. 11:2• ²For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2)

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Whom.

Acts 3:20• ²⁰and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you, (Acts 3:20)

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Acts 5:42• ⁴²And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus was the Christ. (Acts 5:42)

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Acts 8:5,35• ⁵And Philip, going down to a city of Samaria, preached the Christ to them;
³⁵And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him. (Acts 8:5,35)

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Acts 9:20• ²⁰And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that *he* is the Son of God. (Acts 9:20)

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Acts 10:36• ³⁶The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,) (Acts 10:36)

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Acts 11:20• ²⁰But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus. (Acts 11:20)

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Acts 13:38• ³⁸Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you, (Acts 13:38)

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Acts 17:3,18• ³opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.
¹⁸But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them. (Acts 17:3,18)

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Rom. 16:25• ²⁵Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages, (Rom. 16:25)

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1 Cor. 1:23• ²³but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness; (1 Cor. 1:23)

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1 Cor. 15:12• ¹²Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead? (1 Cor. 15:12)

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2 Cor. 4:5• ⁵For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake. (2 Cor. 4:5)

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2 Cor. 10:14• ¹⁴For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;) (2 Cor. 10:14)

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Eph. 3:8• ⁸To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ, (Eph. 3:8)

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Phil. 1:15‑18• ¹⁵Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.
¹⁶These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;
¹⁷but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.
¹⁸What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice; (Phil. 1:15‑18)

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1 Tim. 3:16• ¹⁶And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory. (1 Tim. 3:16)

warning.

Jer. 6:10• ¹⁰To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. (Jer. 6:10)

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Ezek. 3:17‑21• ¹⁷Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
¹⁹But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
²⁰And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
²¹And if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall certainly live, for he hath taken warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezek. 3:17‑21)

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Ezek. 33:4‑9• ⁴then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
⁵He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood is upon him: whereas had he taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
⁶But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
⁷So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
⁸When I say unto the wicked, Wicked man, thou shalt certainly die; and thou speakest not to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
⁹But if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezek. 33:4‑9)

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Matt. 3:7• ⁷But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath? (Matt. 3:7)

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Acts 20:27‑28,31• ²⁷for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.
²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.
³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears. (Acts 20:27‑28,31)

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1 Cor. 4:14• ¹⁴Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you. (1 Cor. 4:14)

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1 Thess. 4:6• ⁶not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)

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1 Thess. 5:12‑14• ¹²But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,
¹³and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their work. Be in peace among yourselves.
¹⁴But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all. (1 Thess. 5:12‑14)

teaching.

Deut. 4:5• ⁵See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it. (Deut. 4:5)

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Ezek. 7:10• ¹⁰Behold the day, behold, it is come: the doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride is full blown. (Ezek. 7:10)

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Eccl. 12:9• ⁹And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. (Eccl. 12:9)

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Matt. 28:20• ²⁰teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age. (Matt. 28:20)

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Mark 6:34• ³⁴And on leaving the ship Jesus saw a great crowd, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. (Mark 6:34)

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Eph. 4:11• ¹¹and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, (Eph. 4:11)

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1 Tim. 3:2• ²The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; (1 Tim. 3:2)

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2 Tim. 2:24‑25• ²⁴And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;
²⁵in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth, (2 Tim. 2:24‑25)

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Prov. 8:5• ⁵O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense. (Prov. 8:5)

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Jer. 3:15• ¹⁵And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (Jer. 3:15)

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Luke 21:15• ¹⁵for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist. (Luke 21:15)

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1 Cor. 2:6,15• ⁶But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.
¹⁵but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. (1 Cor. 2:6,15)

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1 Cor. 12:8• ⁸For to one, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; (1 Cor. 12:8)

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2 Peter 3:15• ¹⁵and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him, (2 Peter 3:15)

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Col. 1:22• ²²in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it, (Col. 1:22)

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2 Cor. 11:2• ²For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2)

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Eph. 5:27• ²⁷that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:27)

perfect.

Col. 2:10• ¹⁰and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and authority, (Col. 2:10)

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1 Cor. 1:30• ³⁰But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; (1 Cor. 1:30)

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Eph. 4:12‑13• ¹²for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;
¹³until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; (Eph. 4:12‑13)

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Heb. 10:14• ¹⁴For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified. (Heb. 10:14)

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Heb. 13:21• ²¹perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen. (Heb. 13:21)

• Not that every man would receive it; but there was no longer any limit. All distinction between them was blotted out, alike by sin and by grace, and there was but one thing to do; that is, to seek that every man, by the power of the Word and the Spirit, should reflect Christ and grow up unto the stature of His fullness, as revealed in the doctrine committed to the Apostle. (“Colossians 1” by J.N. Darby)

• Full Christian maturity. “Perfect,” in the sense in which Paul uses the word here, refers to this. It means “full grown” and could be translated as such (1 Cor. 14:20; Phil. 3:15). (“The Fulness That Resides in Christ: Colossians 1-2:3” by B. Anstey)

• Note the switch from the plural (“you” – vs. 27) to the singular (“every man” – vs. 28). This is because when it comes to growth and progress in divine things, it is an individual thing. (“The Fulness That Resides in Christ: Colossians 1-2:3” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

W. Kelly Translation

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whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfecta in Christ,

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"Perfect" means "full-grown," as in {vi 29437}{/vi}, and as the KJV gives "of full age" in {vi 30045}{/vi}.