ACTS 20:29

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.”

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Acts 20:29 Translation & Meaning

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For γὰρ, Properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles) For
I ἐγὼ I, me I
know οἶδα Used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know know
this, τοῦτο, That thing this
that ὅτι Demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because that
after μετὰ Properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G0575 or G1537 and G1519 or G4314; less intimate than G1722 and less close than G4862) after
my μου Of me my
departing shall ἄφιξίν Properly, arrival, i.e., (by implication) departure departing
grievous βαρεῖς Weighty, i.e., (fig) burdensome, grave grievous
wolves λύκοι A wolf wolves
enter εἰσελεύσονται To enter (literally or figuratively) enter
in εἰς To or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases in
among εἰς To or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases among
you, ὑμᾶς You (as the objective of a verb or preposition) you
not μὴ (adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether not
sparing φειδόμενοι To be chary of, i.e., (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently sparing
the τοῦ The (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom) the
flock. ποιμνίου A flock, i.e., (figuratively) group (of believers) flock

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  • 27  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

  • 28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

  • 29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

  • 30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

  • 31  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.




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