Matthew 10:16

Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

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Genesis 3:13
Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Revelation 12:9
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 20:2
He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

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Genesis 20:5
Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

2 Samuel 15:11
Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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Genesis 32:20
You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Proverbs 8:12
“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Isaiah 28:26
For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

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Genesis 45:5
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Mark 5:19
He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.”

Mark 13:34
“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

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Joshua 9:4
they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

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1 Kings 18:9
He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

1 Kings 18:10
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.

1 Kings 18:11
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.” ’

1 Kings 18:12
It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

1 Kings 18:13
Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18:14
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

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Nehemiah 6:3
I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

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Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Isaiah 41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

Song of Solomon 2:2
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved

Song of Solomon 4:1
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

John 2:24
But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

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Isaiah 11:6
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

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Matthew 8:19
A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

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Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

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Matthew 5:17
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

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Ezekiel 2:4
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

Matthew 10:5
Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

Matthew 10:6
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

John 13:20
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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Mark 1:10
Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

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Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Matthew 24:10
Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

Matthew 24:13
But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Mark 13:10
The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

Mark 13:12
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Mark 13:13
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 21:18
And not a hair of your head will perish.

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Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 17:15
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

John 17:18
As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

Acts 12:2
He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Acts 22:19
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

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Acts 16:19
But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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2 Corinthians 8:20
We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

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Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

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Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Luke 12:12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from every form of evil.

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Proverbs 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

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