Matthew 10:9-15

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles

⁹ _g Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts, ¹⁰ no bag for your journey, nor two tunics ₁ nor sandals nor a staff, for _h the laborer deserves his food. ¹¹ And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. ¹² As you enter the house, _i greet it. ¹³ And if the house is _j worthy, let _i your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let _i your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, _l shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. ¹⁵ Truly, I say to you, _m it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for _n the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 10:9 - 15
   Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts.
   Mark 6:8 - 11
   He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff - no bread, no bag, no money in their belts -
   Luke 9:3 - 5
   And he said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.
   Luke 10:4 - 12
   Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.
   Luke 22:35
   And he said to them, "When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 10:9 - 15
   Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts.
   Mark 6:8 - 11
   He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff - no bread, no bag, no money in their belts -
   Luke 9:3 - 5
   And he said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Timothy 5:18
   For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages.
   1 Corinthians 9:4
   Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
   1 Corinthians 9:7 - 14
   Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
   
4. Cross References
   1 Samuel 25:6
   And thus you shall greet him: 'Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
   1 Chronicles 12:18
   Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you." Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 8:8
   But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.
   Acts 16:15
   And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
   
6. Cross References
   Matthew 10:12
   As you enter the house, greet it.
   
7. Cross References
   Matthew 10:12
   As you enter the house, greet it.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 13:51
   But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.
   Nehemiah 5:13
   I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
   Acts 18:6
   And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.
   
9. Cross References
   Matthew 11:24
   But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.
   
10. Cross References
    Genesis 18:20
    Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
    Genesis 19:28
    And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
    2 Peter 2:6
    If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.