^11 (A)And ^[a]whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, ^(B)shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. ^[b]Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

⁶ But ^(A)when they opposed him and blasphemed, ^(B)he shook his garments and said to them, ^(C)“Your blood be upon your own heads; ^(D)I am clean. ^(E)From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

^14 (A)And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, ^(B)shake off the dust from your feet. ¹⁵ Assuredly, I say to you, ^(C)it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

¹³ Then ^(A)I shook out ^[a]the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.”

And all the assembly said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord. ^(B)Then the people did according to this promise.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, ^(A)raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. ^51 (B)But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ^11 (A)‘The very dust of your city which clings to ^[a]us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ ^12 [b]But I say to you that ^(B)it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.

Woe to the Impenitent Cities^(C)

^13 (D)“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! ^(E)For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ^15 (F)And you, Capernaum, ^[c]who are ^(G)exalted to heaven, ^(H)will be brought down to Hades.

⁷ as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ^[a]vengeance of eternal fire.

The Consummation of Love

¹⁷ Love has been perfected among us in this: that ^(A)we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

⁷ But ^(A)the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for ^(B)fire until the day of judgment and ^[a]perdition of ungodly men.