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For I have not refrained from declaring unto you the full counsel of God.
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Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to feed the
congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
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For I know this, that after my departing, grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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Also from among your own selves, men shall arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.
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Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
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And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is powerful to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
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I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.
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Moreover, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to those that were with me.
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I have showed you
in all things how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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And when he had thus spoken, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
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Then they all wept sore and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,