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18 And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I arrived in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,
19 serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and trials having befallen me in the plots of the Jews;
20 how I did not shrink back from declaring to you anything being profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,
21 earnestly testifying both to the Jewish and to Greeks repentance in God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
22 And now behold, bound in the Spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me in it,
23 except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.
24 But I make my life neither dear nor any account to myself, so as to finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus: to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that all of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face no more.
26 Therefore I testify to you in this day that I am innocent of the blood of all.
27 For I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you the whole counsel of God.
28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has set you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with the own blood.
29 I know that after my departure, grievous wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock,
30 and out from your own selves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years night and day I never ceased admonishing each one with tears.
32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, being able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those having been sanctified.
33 I coveted nobody’s silver or gold or clothing.
34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs and to those being with me.
35 In everything I showed you that by thus straining, it behooves us to aid those being weak, and also to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, ‘It is more Blessed to give than to receive.’”