Acts 20:28-35

28You who are leaders should be careful about how you live. Also take care of the group of people that the Holy Spirit has chosen you to lead. Keep them safe like shepherds who take care of their sheep. All the believers belong to God because his Son, Jesus, died for them. He bought them with his blood which poured out on the cross.

29I know that trouble will come to you after I leave. Bad people will come to teach you. They will cause trouble for the believers, like dangerous wild animals that attack sheep.

30Even men from your own group of believers will teach things that are not true. They want to deceive other believers, so that they leave you and join with them.

31So be very careful! For three years I taught you, in the day and in the night. I warned you to be careful, so that I even cried about it.

32Now I ask God to keep you safe. I brought God's message to you, which tells us how kind he is. That message will cause you to be strong. As a result, God will give to you all the good things that he has for his own special people.

33When I stayed among you, I did not ask you to give me money or clothes.

34You yourselves know that I worked with my hands. I did that to get money. Then my friends and I could have the things that we needed.

35In this way I have shown you how you should live. You should work well so that you may help sick or weak people. You should remember what Jesus himself said: “It may make you happy when you receive things. But it makes you more happy when you give things to someone.” ’