Acts 20:28-38 ▼

28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among whom the Holy Spirit has set you? as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

29 I have known that after my departure, grievous wolves will come in among you?, not sparing the flock,

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

31 Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease admonishing each one with tears.

32 And now I commit you? to God and to the word of His grace, being able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those having been sanctified.

33 I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs and to those being with me.

35 In everything I showed you? that by thus laboring, it is necessary to aid those being weak, and also to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

36 And having said these things, having bowed his knee, he prayed with them all.

37 Then there was much weeping among all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

38 sorrowing especially over the word that he had spoken, that they are about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.