28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
— Acts 20:28-29

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