Matthew 10:16-25
1599 Geneva Bible
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.
19 (B)But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour, what ye shall say.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21 And the (C)brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my Name: (D)but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saved.
23 And when they persecute you in this city, flee into another: for verily I say unto you, ye shall not [e]go over all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24 (E)The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple to be as his master is, and the servant as his Lord. (F)If they have called the master of the house [f]Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?
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- Matthew 10:16 Christ showeth how the ministers must behave themselves under the cross.
- Matthew 10:16 You shall be in great dangers.
- 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.
- Matthew 10:17 For in the cause of religion men are wolves one to another.
- Matthew 10:23 Bring to an end, that is, you shall not have gone through all the cities of Israel, and preached in them.
- Matthew 10:25 It was the idol of the Acronites, which we call the god of flies.
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