Acts 20:31

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

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In The King James Version

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

In Context

30and from among yourselves, too, people will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them.

32And now I commend you to the Lord and to the message of his love – a message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ’s people.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:25But, while everyone was asleep, their enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.

Luke 21:36Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”

Acts 19:10This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Roman Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the Lord’s message.

Acts 20:11Then he went upstairs; and, after breaking and partaking of the bread, he talked with them at great length until daybreak, and then left.

Acts 24:17After some years’ absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings;

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:18-36

Paul's Address to the Elders of Ephesus. 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, 19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: 20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you… Read the whole commentary →

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