Matthew 10:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴^(A) If someone won't welcome you or listen to your message, leave their home or town. And shake the dust from your feet at them.^[a] ¹⁵^(B) I promise you the day of judgment will be easier for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah^[b] than for that town.

Warning about Trouble

(Mark 13.9-13; Luke 21.12-17)

¹⁶^(C) I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves.

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Footnotes

10.14 shake the dust from your feet at them: This was a way of showing rejection (see Acts 13.51).
10.15 Sodom and Gomorrah: During the time of Abraham the Lord destroyed these towns because the people there were so evil.