Acts 20:30

30 and ¹from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 20:30 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise
Not only false teachers from abroad should come and enter among them, but some would spring up out of their own communities, such as had been admitted members of them, and of whom they had hoped well; such were Hymenseus, Philetus, Alexander, Hertoogenes, and Phygellus;

speaking perverse things;
concerning God, and Christ, and the Gospel; distorted things, wresting the Scriptures to their own destruction, and that of others; things that are disagreeable to the word of God, and pernicious to the souls of men:

to draw away disciples after them;
to rend away members from the churches, make schisms and divisions, form parties, set themselves at the head of them, and establish new sects, called after their own names; see ( 1 John 2:19 ) ( 1 Timothy 5:19 ) .

Acts 20:30 In-Context

28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

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

31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears.

32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Cross References

• 1. [1 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 1 Timothy 1:19, 20; 1 John 2:18, 19]