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Acts 20:29
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Acts 20:29
29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
29For I know this, that after my departing shall grieuous wolues enter in among you, not sparing the flocke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 20:29
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Going away, leaving, or separating.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Burdensome, painful, severe.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The fierce predatory animal called a wolf in the KJV, often used figuratively of destroyers.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Refraining from injuring, using, or spending; showing restraint or mercy; scanty when describing an amount.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study15¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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Open the full verse study1BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
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Open the full verse study28¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
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Open the full verse study3Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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Open the full verse study2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
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Open the full verse study1WOE be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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Open the full verse study20Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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Open the full verse study3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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