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16 Lo! I send you as sheep in the middle of wolves; therefore be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves.[a]

17 But be ye ware of men, for they shall take you in councils, and they shall beat you in their synagogues;

18 and to mayors, or presidents, and to kings, ye shall be led for me, in witnessing to them, and to heathen men.

19 But when they take you, do not ye think, how or what thing ye shall speak [But when they shall take, or betray, you, do not ye think, how or what ye shall speak], for it shall be given to you in that hour, what ye shall speak;

20 for it be not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father, that speaketh in you.

21 And the brother shall betake the brother into death, and the father the son, and [the] sons shall rise against [their] father and mother, and shall torment them by death [and shall torment them to death].

22 And ye shall be in hate to all men for my name; but he that shall dwell still into the end, shall be made safe. [And ye shall be in hatred to all men for my name; forsooth he that shall continue till into the end, shall be safe.]

23 And when they pursue you in this city, flee ye into another. Truly I say to you, ye shall not end the cities of Israel, before that man's Son come [till that man's Son come].

24 The disciple is not above the master [The disciple is not above his master], nor the servant above his lord;

25 it is enough to the disciple, that he be as his master, and to the servant as his lord. If they have called the husbandman Beelzebub [If they have called the husbandman, or the father of (the) household, Beelzebub], how much more his household members?

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  1. Matthew 10:16 Lo! I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be ye prudent, either wise/wary, or wise before, as serpents, and simple as doves.