31. Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning you with tears.
32. “Now I commit you to God and the word of His grace, which is strong to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who have been made holy.
33. I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.
34. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own needs as well as for those with me.
35. In all things I have shown you an object lesson—that by hard work one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Yeshua, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36. When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
37. They all began weeping and falling upon Paul’s neck and kissing him,
38. grieving most of all over the statement he made that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.