I consider my life worth nothing to me if only I may
finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has
given me. The task of testifying to the Gospel of God's
grace. Now I know that none of you whom I have gone about
preaching the Kingdom will ever see me again. Therefore I
declare to you that I am innocent of the blood of all men
for I have not hesitated to proclaim the whole will of
God. Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock to
which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be
shepherds of the church, of God, which He bought with His
own blood. I know that when I leave savage wolves will
come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from
your own number men will arise and distort the truth in
order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your
guard. We are not the wolves at the gate, we are the ones
who face them.
