Acts 20:23-32

²³except that the Holy Spirit in every city is solemnly bearing witness, saying that bonds and tribulations are waiting for me.

²⁴But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁵“And now behold, now I know that you all, among whom I have passed through preaching the kingdom of God, will no longer see my face.

²⁶Therefore I testify to you this very day, that I am innocent of all blood.

²⁷For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁸Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

²⁹For I know this, that savage wolves will come in after my departure, not sparing the flock.

³⁰Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, in order to draw away the disciples after them.

³¹Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

³²“So for the present, I entrust you, brothers, to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.