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When you go into a house, greet the family.
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If it is a family that listens to you, allow your greeting to stand. But if it is not receptive, take back your greeting.
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If anyone doesn't welcome you or listen to what you say, leave that house or city, and shake its dust off your feet.
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I can guarantee this truth: Judgment day will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city.
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"I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as snakes but as innocent as doves.
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Watch out for people who will hand you over to the Jewish courts and whip you in their synagogues.
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Because of me you will even be brought in front of governors and kings to testify to them and to everyone in the world.
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When they hand you over [to the authorities], don't worry about what to say or how to say it. When the time comes, you will be given what to say.
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Indeed, you're not the ones who will be speaking. The Spirit of your Father will be speaking through you.
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"Brother will hand over brother to death; a father will hand over his child. Children will rebel against their parents and kill them.
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Everyone will hate you because you are committed to me. But the person who patiently endures to the end will be saved.