Matthew 10:13-23

13 "If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.

14 "Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, ¹shake the dust off your feet.

15 "Truly I say to you, ²it will be more tolerable for the land of ³Sodom and Gomorrah in ⁴the day of judgment than for that city.

A Hard Road before Them

16 "⁵Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be ⁶shrewd as serpents and ⁷innocent as doves.

17 "But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the ⁸courts and scourge you ⁹in their synagogues;

18 and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

19 "¹⁰But when they hand you over, ¹¹do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.

20 "For ¹²it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

21 "¹³Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and ¹⁴children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

22 "¹⁵You will be hated by all because of My name, but ¹⁶it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

23 "But whenever they ¹⁷persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel ¹⁸until the Son of Man comes.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 13:51
• 2. Matthew 11:22, 24
• 3. Matthew 11:24; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 7
• 4. Matthew 7:22; Matthew 11:22, 24; Matthew 12:36; Acts 17:31; 1 Thessalonians 5:4; Hebrews 10:25; 2 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 3:7; 1 John 4:17; Jude 6
• 5. Luke 10:3
• 6. Genesis 3:1; Matthew 24:25; Romans 16:19
• 7. Hosea 7:11
• 8. Matthew 5:22
• 9. Matthew 23:34; Mark 13:9; Luke 12:11; Acts 5:40; Acts 22:19; Acts 26:11
• 10. Matthew 10:19-22: {Mark 13:11-13; Luke 21:12-17}
• 11. Matthew 6:25; Luke 12:11, 12
• 12. Luke 12:12; Acts 4:8; Acts 13:9; 2 Corinthians 13:3
• 13. Matthew 10:35, 36; Mark 13:12
• 14. Micah 7:6
• 15. Matthew 24:9; Luke 21:17; John 15:18f
• 16. Matthew 24:13; Mark 13:13
• 17. Matthew 23:34
• 18. Matthew 16:27

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "your peace is to come upon it"
• [b]. Lit "your peace is to return to you"
• [c]. Or "show yourselves to be"
• [d]. Lit "put them to death"
• [e]. Lit "this"
• [f]. Lit "the other"