Acts 20:30

and men speaking shrewd [or wayward] things shall rise (up out) of yourselves (or and men speaking depraved things shall rise up from among you), (so) that they lead away (the) disciples after them.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

In Context

29I know, that after my departing, ravening (or snatching) wolves shall enter into you, not sparing the flock;

31For which thing wake ye, holding in mind, (or For which thing be on watch, keeping in mind), that by three years night and day I ceased not, (along) with (my) tears, admonishing each of you.

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:33Thine eyes shall see strange, ( or unknown), women, and thy heart shall speak wayward things.

Matthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that go about the sea and the land, to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him (to be) a son of hell, double more than ye be.

Acts 5:36For before these days (there was) Theudas, that said himself to be some man, to whom a number of men consented, about four hundred; which was slain, and all that believed to him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

Acts 21:38Whether thou art not the Egyptian, which before these days movedest a noise, and leddest out into (the) desert four thousand of men, menslayers? (Art thou not that Egyptian, who before these days caused a commotion, and led out into the desert four thousand men, all murderers?)

Galatians 6:12For whoever will please in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they suffer not the persecution of Christ’s cross (or so that they themselves shall not suffer persecution for the cross of the Messiah).

1 Timothy 5:13Also they (being) idle learn to go about houses, not only idle, but [they be] full of words and curious [or and curiosity], speaking things that it behooveth not.

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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