Acts 20:30

Acts 20:30 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• New International Version (NIV)Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Context of Acts 20:30

28Keep 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. 29I 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. 31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. 32And 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.

Acts 20:30 word by word

καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήσονται ἄνδρες λαλοῦντες διεστραμμένα τοῦ ἀποσπᾶν τοὺς μαθητὰς ὀπίσω αὐτῶν.Read the interlinear

• Evenκαίkai · andG2532
• fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• your ownσύsu · youG4771
• numberαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• menἀνήρanēr · manG435
• will rise upἀνίστημιanistēmi · to ariseG450
• distortδιαστρέφωdiastrephō · to pervertG1294
• ·λαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• to draw awayἀποσπάωapospaō · to draw awayG645
• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• afterὀπίσωopisō · afterG3694
• themἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438

Cross-references for Acts 20:30

• Matthew 26:21And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
• 1 Timothy 1:19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
• 2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
• 2 Timothy 4:3For 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.
• 2 Peter 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
• 1 John 2:19They 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.
• 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Revelation 2:6But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Proverbs 19:1Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
• Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• 1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
• 1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
• 2 Peter 2:18With 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.
• Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

Commentaries on Acts 20:30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30Also of your own selves, etc. - From out of your own assembly shall men arise, speaking perverse things, teaching for truth what is erroneous in itself, and perversive of the genuine doctrine of Christ crucified. To draw away disciples - To make schisms or rents in the Church, in order to get a party to themselves. See, here, the cause of divisions in the Church: The superintendents lose the life of God, neglect the souls of the people, become greedy of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Also of your own selves - From your own church; from those who profess to. be Christians. Speaking perverse things - Crooked, perverted, distracting doctrines ́ diestrammenaCompare the notes on Acts 13:10. They would proclaim doctrines tending to distract and divide the church. The most dangerous enemies which the church has had have been nurtured in its own bosom, and have consisted of those who have perverted the true doctrines of the gospel. Among the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 28-38Verses 28-38 If the Holy Ghost has made ministers overseers of the flock, that is, shepherds, they must be true to their trust. Let them consider their Master's concern for the flock committed to their charge. It is the church He has purchased with his own blood. The blood was his as Man; yet so close is the union between the Divine and human nature, that it is there called the blood of God, for it was the blood of Him who is God. This put such dignity…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-30savage wolves: Paul’s prophecy did in fact happen, prompting him to write to Timothy in Ephesus some five years later (see 1 Timothy 1:3–7, 19–20; 4:1–5; see also Matthew 7:15; 10:16; Mark 13:22; Luke 10:3; 2 Peter 2:1–22; 3:3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 29-3029-30. after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you--Two classes of coming enemies are here announced, the one more external to themselves, the other bred in the bosom of their own community; both were to be teachers, but the one, "grievous wolves," not sparing, that is, making a prey of the flock; the other (Ac 20:30), simply sectarian "perverters" of the truth, with the view of drawing a party after them. Perhaps the one pointed to that…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings