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`And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;
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wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I [am] clear from the blood of all,
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for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
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`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
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for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
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and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;
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and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
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`The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;
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and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
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all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth [us] to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'