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Acts 20:30
30and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
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
28Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own. 29[For] I know [this,] that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them. 31Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears. 32And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an inheritance among all the sanctified.
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καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήσονται ἄνδρες λαλοῦντες διεστραμμένα τοῦ ἀποσπᾶν τοὺς μαθητὰς ὀπίσω αὐτῶν.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Acts 20:30
- Matthew 26:21And as they were eating he said, Verily I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.
- 1 Timothy 1:19maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
- 2 Timothy 2:17and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;
- 2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
- 1 John 2:19They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.
- 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, they who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in flesh — this is the deceiver and the antichrist.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 2:6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
- Proverbs 19:1Better is a poor [man] that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- Proverbs 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
- 1 Timothy 5:13And, at the same time, they learn also [to be] idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.
- 1 Timothy 6:5constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be [the end of] piety.
- 2 Peter 2:18For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
- Jude 1:15to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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
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