Acts 20:19-29

19 1serving the Lord 2with all humility and with 3tears and with trials that happened to me through 4the plots of the Jews;
20 how I 5did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and 6teaching you in public and from house to house,
21 7testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of 8repentance toward God and of 9faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained 10by[a] the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,
23 except that 11the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that 12imprisonment and 13afflictions await me.
24 But 14I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only 15I may finish my course and 16the ministry 17that I received from the Lord Jesus, 18to testify to 19the gospel of 20the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, 21I know that none of you among whom I have gone about 22proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.
26 Therefore 23I testify to you this day that 24I am innocent of the blood of all of you,
27 for 25I did not shrink from declaring to you 26the whole counsel of God.
28 27Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all 28the flock, in which 29the Holy Spirit has made you 30overseers, 31to care for 32the church of God,[b] which he 33obtained 34with his own blood.[c]
29 I 35know that after my departure 36fierce wolves will come in among you, 37not sparing the flock;

Cross References 37

  • 1. [Romans 12:11; Colossians 3:24]
  • 2. [1 Thessalonians 2:6, 7]; See Ephesians 4:2
  • 3. [ver. 31; 2 Corinthians 2:4; Philippians 3:18]
  • 4. See ver. 3
  • 5. ver. 27
  • 6. [ver. 31]
  • 7. ver. 24; Acts 18:5
  • 8. Mark 1:15; Hebrews 6:1; See Acts 2:38
  • 9. [Ephesians 1:15; Colossians 1:4; 1 Timothy 3:13]
  • 10. [Acts 17:16]
  • 11. [Acts 21:4, 11]; See Acts 8:29; Acts 9:16
  • 12. Acts 21:33
  • 13. Acts 14:22; 1 Thessalonians 3:3
  • 14. See Acts 21:13
  • 15. 2 Timothy 4:7
  • 16. Acts 1:17; 1 Timothy 1:12
  • 17. Galatians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; [Acts 26:16; Titus 1:3]
  • 18. ver. 21
  • 19. Acts 15:7
  • 20. [ver. 32; 1 Timothy 1:14]; See Acts 11:23
  • 21. [Philippians 1:25]
  • 22. See Acts 28:31
  • 23. Deuteronomy 8:19
  • 24. See Acts 18:6
  • 25. ver. 20; [Jeremiah 26:2; Ezekiel 33:8]
  • 26. Acts 13:36; Luke 7:30; [Acts 2:23; Ephesians 1:11; Hebrews 6:17]
  • 27. [1 Timothy 4:16]
  • 28. ver. 29; [Ephesians 4:11]; See Luke 12:32
  • 29. [Acts 13:2; 1 Corinthians 12:8-11]
  • 30. Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:7; [ver. 17]
  • 31. See John 21:16
  • 32. 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:16; 1 Corinthians 15:9
  • 33. [2 Peter 2:1]
  • 34. Hebrews 9:12, 14; [Ephesians 1:7; 1 John 1:7]; See 1 Peter 1:18, 19; Revelation 5:9
  • 35. [See ver. 28 above]
  • 36. See Matthew 7:15
  • 37. John 10:12; [Colossians 2:8]

Footnotes 3

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