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30 Some of your own people will distort the word in order to lure followers after them.
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Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
31 Stay alert! Remember that for three years I constantly and tearfully warned each one of you. I never stopped warning you!
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So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
32 Now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all whom God has made holy.
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“Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
33 I haven't craved anyone's silver, gold, or clothing.
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I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
34 You yourselves know that I have provided for my own needs and for those of my companions with my own hands.
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You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.
35 In everything I have shown you that, by working hard, we must help the weak. In this way we remember the Lord Jesus' words: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
36 After he said these things, he knelt down with all of them to pray.
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When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
37 They cried uncontrollably as everyone embraced and kissed Paul.
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They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.
38 They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
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What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
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