Acts 20:28-38

²⁸Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. ²⁹I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. ³²And now I entrust you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. ³³I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes. ³⁴You yourselves know that these hands served my own needs and the men who were with me. ³⁵In everything I showed you that by working hard in this way you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

³⁶When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. ³⁷And they all began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him, ³⁸grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship.