35 I have showed you all things, how that so laboring, ye ought to [a]support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how that he said, It is a blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.

37 [b]Then they wept all abundantly, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 20:35 As it were by reaching out the hand to them, which otherwise are about to slip and fall away, and so to stay them.
  2. Acts 20:37 The Gospel doth not take away natural affections, but ruleth and bridleth them in good order.

35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

36 When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.(A) 37 They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.(B)

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