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Acts 20:30

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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
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  1. 1 Timothy 1:19–20Rank 1 from verse 30
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    19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

    20Of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

  2. 2 Timothy 4:3–4Rank 2 from verse 30
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    3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

    4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

  3. 1 John 2:19Rank 3 from verse 30
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    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 made manifest that they were not all of us.

  4. Proverbs 23:33Rank 4 from verse 30
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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  5. Acts 11:26Rank 5 from verse 30
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    26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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Acts 20:30

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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arise

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1. To rise, stand, get up, or move upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. To begin, emerge, appear, come into being, or come forward. 3. To take action, intervene, or undertake the stated work. 4. To rise from death; to return to life.

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draw

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1. To pull or drag. 2. To bring, lead, or attract. 3. To take out or extract. 4. To make a line.

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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20:28¶ 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.

20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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20:31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

20:32And 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 which are sanctified.

20:33I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

20:34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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