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Therefore I protest to you to-day that I am not responsible for the ruin of any one of you.
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For I have not shrunk from declaring to you God's whole truth.
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"Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.
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I know that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;
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and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.
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Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.
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"And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace. He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.
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No one's silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.
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You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.
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In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, "`It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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Having spoken thus, Paul knelt down and prayed with them all;