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

28Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. 29I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. 32And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those 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

• and from amongἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• your own selvesαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• menἀνήρanēr · manG435
• will ariseἀνίστημιanistēmi · to ariseG450
• speakingλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
• perverseδιαστρέφωdiastrephō · to pervertG1294
• to drawἀποσπάωapospaō · to draw awayG645
• the disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• afterὀπίσωopisō · afterG3694

Cross-references for Acts 20:30

• Matthew 26:21As they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”
• 1 Timothy 1:19keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.
• 2 Timothy 2:17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
• 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
• 2 Peter 2:1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
• 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
• 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
• Jude 1:4For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Revelation 2:6Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Proverbs 19:1Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.
• Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.
• 1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.
• 1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
• 2 Peter 2:18For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
• Jude 1:15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh 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