Acts 20:28-38

²⁸Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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

³⁰And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

³¹Therefore watch, keeping in memory, that for three years I ceased not, with tears to admonish every one of you night and day.

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

³³I have not coveted any man’s silver, gold, or apparel, as

³⁴You yourselves know: for such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

³⁵I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

³⁶And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

³⁷And there was much weeping among them all; and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him,

³⁸Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.