Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders
17 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called
1the elders of the church to come to him.
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And when they came to him, he said to them:
2“You yourselves know
3how I lived among you the whole time
4from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
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5serving the Lord
6with all humility and with
7tears and with trials that happened to me through
8the plots of the Jews;
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how I
9did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and
10teaching you in public and from house to house,
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11testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of
12repentance toward God and of
13faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained
14by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,
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except that
15the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that
16imprisonment and
17afflictions await me.
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But
18I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only
19I may finish my course and
20the ministry
21that I received from the Lord Jesus,
22to testify to
23the gospel of
24the grace of God.