Acts 20:28-35

New International Version

²⁸ Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock^(A) of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.^(B) Be shepherds of the church of God,^[a](C) which he bought^(D) with his own blood.^{[b](E) 29} I know that after I leave, savage wolves^(F) will come in among you and will not spare the flock.^{(G) 30} Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples^(H) after them. ³¹ So be on your guard! Remember that for three years^(I) I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.^(J)

³² “Now I commit you to God^(K) and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance^(L) among all those who are sanctified.^{(M) 33} I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.^{(N) 34} You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.^{(O) 35} In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”