Acts 20:28-35

New Catholic Bible

²⁸ Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, and be shepherds of the Church of God that he purchased with the price of his own blood.

²⁹ “I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock. ³⁰ Even from your own ranks men will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. ³¹ Therefore, be on your guard. Remember that for three years I never ceased night and day to warn every one of you with tears.

³² “And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace that is able to build you up and give you your inheritance among all who are sanctified. ³³ I have never coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. ³⁴ You are aware that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions. ³⁵ In all this, I have shown you that by such hard work we must help the weak, keeping in mind the words of the Lord Jesus who himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”^[a]