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

28Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. 32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them 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

• Alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• yourὑμῶνhumōn · of youG5216
• selvesαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• shallἀνίστημιanistēmi · to ariseG450
• menἀνήρanēr · manG435
• speakingλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
• thingsδιαστρέφωdiastrephō · to pervertG1294
• awayἀποσπάωapospaō · to draw awayG645
• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• afterὀπίσωopisō · afterG3694

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 betray me.
• 1 Timothy 1:19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
• 2 Timothy 2:17And their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
• 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap up to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• 2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be shown that they were not all of us.
• 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have entered into the world, who confess not Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Revelation 2:6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Proverbs 19:1Betteris the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Proverbs 23:33Thy eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness.
• 1 Timothy 5:13And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• 1 Timothy 6:5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• 2 Peter 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that are just escaping from them who live in error.
• Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have impiously committed, and of all their hard speeches 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