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Go now, but listen! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.
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Don't carry a purse, a bag, or sandals, and don't waste time talking with people on the road.
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Before you go into a house, say, 'Peace be with this house.'
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If peaceful people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you.
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Stay in the peaceful house, eating and drinking what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don't move from house to house.
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If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you.
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Heal the sick who live there, and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'
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But if you go into a town, and the people don't welcome you, then go into the streets and say,
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'Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the kingdom of God is near.'
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I tell you, on the Judgment Day it will be better for the people of Sodomn than for the people of that town.
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"How terrible for you, Korazin! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles I did in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, those people would have changed their lives long ago. They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show they had changed.