Acts 20:30
28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
- KJV
- Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
- WEB
- Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
- ASV
- and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
- DARBY
- and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
- BLB
- and out from your⁺ own selves men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
- ÅB
- ja, blant dere selv skal det fremstå menn som fører forvendt tale for å lokke disiplene etter seg.
- OTB
- Selv blant dere vil menn stå frem og forvrenge sannheten for å trekke disipler etter seg.
- B1930
- ja, blandt eder selv skal det fremstå menn som fører forvendt tale for å lokke disiplene efter sig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 1:19–20
holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:3–4
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
Read in contextProverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
Read in context1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
Read in contextProverbs 19:1
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
Read in contextActs 11:26
and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
Read in contextGalatians 6:12–13
Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
Read in context2 Peter 2:18
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
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