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12 When you enter the home, give it your blessing.
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As you enter the home, give it your greeting.
13 If it turns out to be a worthy home, let your blessing stand; if it is not, take back the blessing.
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If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.
14 If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.
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If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
15 I tell you the truth, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off than such a town on the judgment day.
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Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
16 “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
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“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
17 But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.
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Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues.
18 You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell the rulers and other unbelievers about me.
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On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.
19 When you are arrested, don’t worry about how to respond or what to say. God will give you the right words at the right time.
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But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say,
20 For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 “A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.
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“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
22 And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved.
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You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
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