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30 And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples 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 So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
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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 And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.
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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 have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.
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I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
34 You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.
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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 all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
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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 And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.
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When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
37 And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,
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They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.
38 Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with 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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