Acts 20:30-38

30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away ¹the disciples after them.

31 "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of ²three years I did not cease to admonish each one ³with tears.

32 "And now I ⁴commend you to God and to ⁵the word of His grace, which is able to ⁶build you up and to give you ⁷the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

33 "⁸I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

34 "You yourselves know that ⁹these hands ministered to my own needs and to the ¹⁰men who were with me.

35 "In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

36 When he had said these things, he ¹¹knelt * down * and prayed with them all.

37 And they began to weep aloud and ¹²embraced * * Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

38 grieving especially over ¹³the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were ¹⁴accompanying him to the ship.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 11:26
• 2. Acts 19:8, 10; Acts 24:17
• 3. Acts 20:19
• 4. Acts 14:23
• 5. Acts 14:3; Acts 20:24
• 6. Acts 9:31
• 7. Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 5:5; Colossians 1:12; Colossians 3:24; Hebrews 9:15; 1 Peter 1:4
• 8. 1 Corinthians 9:4-18; 2 Corinthians 11:7-12; 2 Corinthians 12:14-18; 1 Thessalonians 2:5
• 9. Acts 18:3
• 10. Acts 19:22
• 11. Acts 9:40; Acts 21:5; Luke 22:41
• 12. Luke 15:20
• 13. Acts 20:25
• 14. Acts 15:3

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "a considerable weeping of all occurred"
• [b] Lit "threw themselves on Paul's neck"
• [c] Lit "suffering pain"