31. Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
32. And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
33. I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.
34. You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.
35. By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36. When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.
37. They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,
38. especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.