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However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
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“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.
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Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.
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For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.
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Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,[a] which he bought with his own blood.[b]