Acts 20:30 Parallel Translations

Some of your own men will come forward and say things that distort the truth. They will do this to lure disciples into following them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

BBE:

And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

DBY:

and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

ERV:

and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

WEY:

and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.

WBS:

Also from your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

WEB:

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

YLT:

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 20:30 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to {k} draw away disciples after them.
(k) This is great misery, to want the presence of such a shepherd, but it is a greater misery to have wolves enter in.

PNT:

20:29-31 Grievous wolves. The figure of the flock is still kept up. The grievous wolves were false teachers, and the special reference is to the Judaizing teachers, who taught that the Gentile Christians must keep the Jewish law. Paul's ministry was a long battle with the schismatics. See 1Ti 1:3,4,20; 2Ti 1:15 2:17 See also 3Jo 1:9,10. By turning to these references the names of some six of these grievous wolves will be found. Also in Revelation we learn that there were false teachers at Ephesus (Re 2:6).

WES:

20:30 Yea, from among yourselves men will arise - Such were the Nicolaitans, of whom Christ complains, Rev 2:6; to draw away disciples - From the purity of the Gospel and the unity of the body.

MHC:

20:28-38 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 and worth into it, as to ransom believers from all evil, and purchase all good. Paul spake about their souls with affection and concern. They were full of care what would become of them. Paul directs them to look up to God with faith, and commends them to the word of God's grace, not only as the foundation of their hope and the fountain of their joy, but as the rule of their walking. The most advanced Christians are capable of growing, and will find the word of grace help their growth. As those cannot be welcome guests to the holy God who are unsanctified; so heaven would be no heaven to them; but to all who are born again, and on whom the image of God is renewed, it is sure, as almighty power and eternal truth make it so. He recommends himself to them as an example of not caring as to things of the present world; this they would find help forward their comfortable passage through it. It might seem a hard saying, therefore Paul adds to it a saying of their Master's, which he would have them always remember; It is more blessed to give than to receive: it seems they were words often used to his disciples. The opinion of the children of this world, is contrary to this; they are afraid of giving, unless in hope of getting. Clear gain, is with them the most blessed thing that can be; but Christ tell us what is more blessed, more excellent. It makes us more like to God, who gives to all, and receives from none; and to the Lord Jesus, who went about doing good. This mind was in Christ Jesus, may it be in us also. It is good for friends, when they part, to part with prayer. Those who exhort and pray for one another, may have many weeping seasons and painful separations, but they will meet before the throne of God, to part no more. It was a comfort to all, that the presence of Christ both went with him and stayed with them.

CONC:

Arise Disciples Distort Draw Order Perverse Perverted Rise Seek Selves Speaking Talk Teaching Truth Turning Wrong Yourselves

Arise Disciples Distort Draw Order Perverse Rise Seek Selves Speaking Talk Teaching Truth Turning Wrong Yourselves

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