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serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
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how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,
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testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;
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only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.
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But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom [of God], shall see my face no more.
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Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all,
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for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.
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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.
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[For] *I* know [this,] that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;