16 (A)[a]Behold, I send you as [b]sheep in the midst of the wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and [c]innocent as doves.

17 But beware of [d]men, for they will deliver you up to the Councils, and will scourge you in their Synagogues.

18 And ye shall be brought to the governors and kings for my sake, in witness to them, and to the Gentiles.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 10:16 Christ showeth how the ministers must behave themselves under the cross.
  2. Matthew 10:16 You shall be in great dangers.
  3. Matthew 10:16 You shall not so much as revenge an injury: and by the mixing of these beasts’ natures together, he will not have our wisdom to be malicious, nor our simplicity mad, but a certain form of good nature as exquisitely framed of both of them, as may be.
  4. Matthew 10:17 For in the cause of religion men are wolves one to another.

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