Acts 20:18-35 So when they had come to him he said to them: “You yourselves know, from the first day that I arrived in Asia, how I lived the whole time I was with you,

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ So when they had come to him he said to them: “You yourselves know, from the first day that I arrived in Asia, how I lived the whole time I was with you, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, the ones that happened to me by the plots of the Jews; ²⁰ how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, ²¹ solemnly proclaiming to both Jews and Greeks the repentance toward God and the faith into our Lord Jesus. ²² Now then, I am going to Jerusalem bound in my spirit, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me. ²⁴ However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God. ²⁵ “Furthermore, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again. ²⁶ Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all; ²⁷ because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. ²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood. ²⁹ Because I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ Yes, men will rise up from among you yourselves, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore be alert, remembering that during three years, night and day, I never stopped admonishing each one, with tears. ³² “And so now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. ³³ I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands have supplied my own needs, and of those who were with me. ³⁵ In every way I showed you that working hard like this it is necessary to help the weak, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’.”