Acts 20:30

30 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.

Acts 20:30 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise
Not only false teachers from abroad should come and enter among them, but some would spring up out of their own communities, such as had been admitted members of them, and of whom they had hoped well; such were Hymenseus, Philetus, Alexander, Hertoogenes, and Phygellus;

speaking perverse things;
concerning God, and Christ, and the Gospel; distorted things, wresting the Scriptures to their own destruction, and that of others; things that are disagreeable to the word of God, and pernicious to the souls of men:

to draw away disciples after them;
to rend away members from the churches, make schisms and divisions, form parties, set themselves at the head of them, and establish new sects, called after their own names; see ( 1 John 2:19 ) ( 1 Timothy 5:19 ) .

Acts 20:30 In-Context

28 "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.

29 I know that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;

30 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.

31 Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

32 "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.