Acts 20:29 Cross References - Thomson

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

²⁰ Raise thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and see them who are coming from the north! Where is the flock that was given thee; the flock of thy glory?

¹ HA! the shepherds are destroying and scattering the sheep of their pasture.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Shepherds of Israel! Do shepherds feed themselves? Do not the shepherds feed their flocks? ³ Behold you devour the milk and clothe yourselves with the fleeces, and that which is fat you slaughter; but my flock you do not feed.

³ her chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the Wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning:

¹⁷ ye feeders of vanities who have forsaken the sheep. There is a sword against his arms, and against his right eye. Shall his arm be quite withered, and his right eye utterly put out?

¹⁵ Now beware of false teachers, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but are inwardly ravenous wolves.

¹⁶ Behold I send you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as the serpents and harmless as the doves.

³ Go ye. Behold I send you forth like lambs among wolves.

¹² But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf seizeth some and scattereth the sheep.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock among which the holy spirit hath made you overseers to tend the congregation of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

¹ Now there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves speedy destruction.