Acts 20:17-35

¹⁷And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

¹⁸And when they had come to him, he said to them: Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you the whole time,

¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

²⁰how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have made it known to you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house;

²¹testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus.

²²And now behold, I go, bound in my spirit, to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me there;

²³save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

²⁴But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

²⁵And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more.

²⁶Wherefore I testify to you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men;

²⁷for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.

²⁹For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

³⁰And from among yourselves will men arise speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

³¹Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.

³²And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

³³I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

³⁴Ye yourselves know, that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those that were with me.

³⁵In all ways I showed you that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.