32. And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care]. And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor]. It is able to build you up and to give you [your rightful] inheritance among all God's set-apart ones (those consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).
33. I coveted no man's silver or gold or [costly] garments.
34. You yourselves know personally that these hands ministered to my own needs and those [of the persons] who were with me.
35. In everything I have pointed out to you [by example] that, by working diligently in this manner, we ought to assist the weak, being mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, It is more blessed (makes one happier and more to be envied) to give than to receive.
36. Having spoken thus, he knelt down with them all and prayed.
37. And they all wept freely and threw their arms around Paul's neck and kissed him fervently and repeatedly,
38. Being especially distressed and sorrowful because he had stated that they were about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.