Acts 20:29-38 ▼

29 I know that when I'm gone, savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock.

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

31 So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped tearfully warning each of you.

32 |I'm now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and secure for you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

33 I never desired anyone's silver, gold, or clothes.

34 You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.

35 In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'|

36 When Paul had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them.

37 All of them cried and cried as they put their arms around Paul and kissed him affectionately.

38 They were especially sorrowful because of what he had said—that they would never see his face again. Then they took him to the ship.