Moffatt(i)
19 how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,
20 how I never shrank from letting you know anything for your good, or from teaching you alike in public and from house to house,
21 bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 Now here I go to Jerusalem under the binding force of the Spirit. What will befall me there, I do not know.
23 Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.
24 But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
25 I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again — not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.
26 Therefore do I protest before you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you;
27 I never shrank from letting you know the entire purpose of God.
28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.
29 I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.
30 and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.
31 So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.