Acts 20:29-38 ▼

29 for I have known this, that there will enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock,

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

31 Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

32 and now, I commend you, brothers, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

33 I coveted the silver or gold or clothing of no one;

34 and you yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, these hands ministered;

35 I showed you all things, that, thus laboring, it is necessary to partake with the ailing, to also be mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said: It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

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

37 and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen on the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

38 sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said—that they are about to see his face no longer; and they were accompanying him to the ship.