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"Remember it is I who am sending you out, as sheep into the midst of wolves; prove yourselves as sagacious as serpents, and as innocent as doves.
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But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;
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and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.
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But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;
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for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.
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And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End--he will be saved.
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Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round of all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
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"The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master.
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Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
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Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.