Acts 20:30
New International Version
Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

New Living Translation
Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.

English Standard Version
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Berean Standard Bible
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

Berean Literal Bible
and out from your own selves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.

King James Bible
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

New King James Version
Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

New American Standard Bible
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.

NASB 1995
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

NASB 1977
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Legacy Standard Bible
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Amplified Bible
even from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse and distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves [as their followers].

Christian Standard Bible
Men will rise up even from your own number and distort the truth to lure the disciples into following them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.

American Standard Version
and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And even some of you and your own men will arise, speaking perversions so as to turn the disciples to go after them.”

Contemporary English Version
Some of your own people will tell lies to win over the Lord's followers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

English Revised Version
and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Some of your own men will come forward and say things that distort the truth. They will do this to lure disciples into following them.

Good News Translation
The time will come when some men from your own group will tell lies to lead the believers away after them.

International Standard Version
Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

Literal Standard Version
and there will arise men of your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Majority Standard Bible
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

New American Bible
And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

NET Bible
Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

New Revised Standard Version
Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.

New Heart English Bible
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also from your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Weymouth New Testament
and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.

World English Bible
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Young's Literal Translation
and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them. 31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.…

Cross References
Daniel 11:34
Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.

Acts 11:26
and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.


Treasury of Scripture

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

of your.

Matthew 26:21-25
And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me…

1 Timothy 1:19,20
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: …

2 Timothy 2:17,18
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; …

speaking.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Proverbs 23:33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

to draw.

Acts 5:36,37
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought…

Acts 21:38
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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Acts 20
1. Paul goes to Macedonia, and thence to Troas.
7. He celebrates the Lord's supper, and preaches.
9. Eutychus having fallen down dead is raised to life.
13. Paul continues his travels;
17. and at Miletum he calls the elders together, tells them what shall befall to himself,
28. commits God's flock to them,
29. warns them of false teachers,
32. commends them to God,
36. prays with them, and departs.














(30) Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things.--The Pastoral Epistles, 2 Peter and Jude, supply but too abundant evidence of the clearness of the Apostle's prevision. Hymenaeus and Alexander and Philetus, saying that the resurrection was past already (1Timothy 1:20; 2Timothy 2:17); evil men and seducers becoming worse and worse (2Timothy 3:13); resisting the faith, as Jannes and Jambres had resisted Moses (2Timothy 3:8); false prophets, bringing in damnable heresies and denying the Lord that bought them (2Peter 2:1); these were part of the rank aftergrowth of the apostolic age, of which St. Paul saw even now the germs. It adds to the pathos of this parting to think that men such as Hymenaeus and Philetus may have been actually present, listening to the Apostle's warnings, and warned by him in vain.

To draw away disciples after them.--Better, to draw away the disciples--those who had previously been disciples of Christ and His Apostles. This was at once the motive and the result of the work of the false teachers. The note of heresy was that it was essentially self-asserting and schismatical. . . .

Verse 30. - And from among for also of, A.V.; the disciples for disciples, A.V. From among your own selves; as opposed to the strangers from Judaea in the preceding verse. So 2 Timothy 4:3, "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears" (see, as instances, 2 Timothy 2:17, 18; 2 Timothy 4:14). Speaking perverse things. So 2 Timothy 4:4, "They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." To draw away the disciples, etc.; i.e. to induce Christians to leave the communion and doctrine of the Church, and join their heresy. The A.V., "to draw away disciples," is manifestly wrong; τοὺς μαθητὰς are Christ's disciples. For the general statement, see 2 Timothy 3:6, "They which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women;" and comp. Romans 16:17, 18, which, according to Renan, was addressed to the Ephesians. For the rise of false teachers in Asia, see 1 Timothy 1:3, 20; 1 Timothy 4:1-7; 1 Timothy 6:20, 21; 2 Timothy 1:15; 1 John 2:26; 1 John 4:1, 3, 5; and through the whole Epistle; Revelation 2:1-7.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Even
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

from
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

your own
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

number,
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

men
ἄνδρες (andres)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man.

will rise up
ἀναστήσονται (anastēsontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 450: To raise up, set up; I rise from among (the) dead; I arise, appear. From ana and histemi; to stand up.

[and] distort
διεστραμμένα (diestrammena)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1294: To pervert, corrupt, oppose, distort. From dia and strepho; to distort, i.e. misinterpret, or corrupt.

[the truth]
λαλοῦντες (lalountes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

to draw away
ἀποσπᾶν (apospan)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 645: From apo and spao; to drag forth, i.e. unsheathe, or relatively retire.

disciples
μαθητὰς (mathētas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3101: A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.

after
ὀπίσω (opisō)
Preposition
Strong's 3694: Behind, after; back, backwards. From the same as opisthen with enclitic of direction; to the back, i.e. Aback.

them.
ἑαυτῶν (heautōn)
Reflexive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1438: Himself, herself, itself.


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