Acts 20:27-37

27 for ¹I did not shrink from declaring to you ²the whole counsel of God.

28 ³Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all ⁴the flock, in which ⁵the Holy Spirit has made you ⁶overseers, ⁷to care for ⁸the church of God, ^[a] which he ⁹obtained ¹⁰with his own blood. ^[b]

29 I ¹¹know that after my departure ¹²fierce wolves will come in among you, ¹³not sparing the flock;

30 and ¹⁴from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

31 Therefore ¹⁵be alert, remembering that ¹⁶for three years I did not cease night or day ¹⁷to admonish every one ¹⁸with tears.

32 And now ¹⁹I commend you to God and to ²⁰the word of his grace, which is able to ²¹build you up and to give you ²²the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

33 ²³I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.

34 ²⁴You yourselves know that ²⁵these hands ministered to my necessities and ²⁶to those who were with me.

35 In all things ²⁷I have shown you that ²⁸by working hard in this way we must ²⁹help the weak and ³⁰remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed ³¹to give than to receive. ’”

36 And when he had said these things, ³²he knelt down and prayed with them all.

37 And ³³there was much weeping on the part of all; ³⁴they embraced Paul and ³⁵kissed him,

Cross References

• 1. 20:27 ver. 20; [Jer. 26:2; Ezek. 33:8]
• 2. 20:27 ch. 13:36; Luke 7:30; [ch. 2:23; Eph. 1:11; Heb. 6:17]
• 3. 20:28 [1 Tim. 4:16]
• 4. 20:28 ver. 29; [Eph. 4:11]; See Luke 12:32
• 5. 20:28 [ch. 13:2; 1 Cor. 12:8-11]
• 6. 20:28 Phil. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3:2; Titus 1:7; [ver. 17]
• 7. 20:28 See John 21:16
• 8. 20:28 1 Cor. 1:2; 10:32; 11:16; 15:9
• 9. 20:28 [2 Pet. 2:1]
• 10. 20:28 Heb. 9:12, 14; [Eph. 1:7; 1 John 1:7]; See 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; Rev. 5:9
• 11. 20:29 [See ver. 28 above]
• 12. 20:29 See Matt. 7:15
• 13. 20:29 John 10:12; [Col. 2:8]
• 14. 20:30 [1 Cor. 11:19; 2 Cor. 11:13; 1 Tim. 1:19, 20; 1 John 2:18, 19]
• 15. 20:31 [Heb. 13:17]; See Matt. 24:42
• 16. 20:31 [ch. 19:8, 10; 24:17]
• 17. 20:31 Col. 1:28
• 18. 20:31 [Heb. 13:17]; See ver. 19
• 19. 20:32 ch. 14:23
• 20. 20:32 ch. 14:3; [ver. 24]
• 21. 20:32 See Col. 2:7
• 22. 20:32 ch. 26:18; Eph. 1:14, 18; 5:5; Col. 1:12; 3:24; Heb. 9:15; [1 Pet. 1:4]; See Matt. 25:34; Rom. 8:17
• 23. 20:33 1 Cor. 9:12; 2 Cor. 7:2; 11:9; 12:17; [1 Sam. 12:3; Matt. 10:8; 1 Thess. 2:5]
• 24. 20:34 [ver. 18]
• 25. 20:34 See ch. 18:3
• 26. 20:34 ch. 19:22, 29
• 27. 20:35 2 Thess. 3:7
• 28. 20:35 Eph. 4:28
• 29. 20:35 1 Thess. 5:14; [1 Cor. 12:28]
• 30. 20:35 ch. 11:16
• 31. 20:35 Matt. 10:8
• 32. 20:36 See ch. 7:60
• 33. 20:37 [2 Tim. 1:4]
• 34. 20:37 See Luke 15:20
• 35. 20:37 See Luke 15:20

Footnotes

• [a] 20:28 Some manuscripts 'of the Lord'
• [b] 20:28 Or 'with the blood of his Own'