Acts 20:27-37

27 "For I ¹did not shrink from declaring to you the whole ²purpose of God.

28 "Be on guard for yourselves and for all ³the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd ⁴the church of God which ⁵He purchased with His own blood.

29 "I know that after my departure ⁶savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing ⁷the flock;

30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away ⁸the disciples after them.

31 "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of ⁹three years I did not cease to admonish each one ¹⁰with tears.

32 "And now I ¹¹commend you to God and to ¹²the word of His grace, which is able to ¹³build you up and to give you ¹⁴the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

33 "¹⁵I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

34 "You yourselves know that ¹⁶these hands ministered to my own needs and to the ¹⁷men who were with me.

35 "In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

36 When he had said these things, he ¹⁸knelt * down * and prayed with them all.

37 And they began to weep aloud and ¹⁹embraced * * Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

Cross References

• 1. Acts 20:20
• 2. Acts 13:36
• 3. Luke 12:32; John 21:15-17; Acts 20:29; 1 Peter 5:2
• 4. Matthew 16:18; Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 10:32
• 5. Ephesians 1:7, 14; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 5:9
• 6. Ezekiel 22:27; Matthew 7:15
• 7. Luke 12:32; John 21:15-17; Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:2
• 8. Acts 11:26
• 9. Acts 19:8, 10; Acts 24:17
• 10. Acts 20:19
• 11. Acts 14:23
• 12. Acts 14:3; Acts 20:24
• 13. Acts 9:31
• 14. Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 5:5; Colossians 1:12; Colossians 3:24; Hebrews 9:15; 1 Peter 1:4
• 15. 1 Corinthians 9:4-18; 2 Corinthians 11:7-12; 2 Corinthians 12:14-18; 1 Thessalonians 2:5
• 16. Acts 18:3
• 17. Acts 19:22
• 18. Acts 9:40; Acts 21:5; Luke 22:41
• 19. Luke 15:20

Footnotes

• [a] Or "bishops"
• [b] Lit "acquired"
• [c] Lit "through"
• [d] Lit "a considerable weeping of all occurred"
• [e] Lit "threw themselves on Paul's neck"