Matthew 10:5-23
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u These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of z the Samaritans,
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a but go rather to b the lost sheep of c the house of Israel.
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And proclaim as you go, saying, d 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
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e Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. f You received without paying; give without pay.
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g Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts,
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no bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for h the laborer deserves his food.
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And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.
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As you enter the house, i greet it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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o "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be p wise as serpents and q innocent as doves.
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Beware of men, for r they will deliver you over to courts and flog you s in their synagogues,
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r and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, t to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
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r When u they deliver you over, v do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for w what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.
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x For it is not you who speak, but y the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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z Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
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a and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. b But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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When they c persecute you in one town, d flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel e before the Son of Man comes.
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Matthew 10:1
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
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2 Kings 17:24
And the king of Assyria brought people from Bab...
Ezra 4:10
And the rest of the nations whom the great and ...
Luke 9:52
And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went a...
Luke 10:33
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where...
Luke 17:16
And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving ...
John 4:9
The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it tha...
John 4:39 - 40
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him ...
John 8:48
The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in say...
Acts 8:25
Now when they had testified and spoken the word...
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit...
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Matthew 15:24
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Acts 3:25 - 26
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Acts 13:46
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
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Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned - every one - to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.
Matthew 9:36
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 18:12
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
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Acts 2:36
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.
Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Hebrews 8:8
For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Matthew 3:2
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Luke 10:9
Heal the sick in it and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.
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Matthew 11:5
The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
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Isaiah 55:1
Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Acts 3:6
But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
Acts 20:35
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Matthew 10:12
As you enter the house, greet it.
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Matthew 10:12
As you enter the house, greet it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Luke 10:3
Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
John 17:18
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?
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Romans 16:19
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
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Mark 13:9
But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
Mark 13:11
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Luke 12:11 - 12
And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say.
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Matthew 23:34
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
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Matthew 10:17
Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues.
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Matthew 8:4
And Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.
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Matthew 10:17
Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues.
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Matthew 10:19 - 22
When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.
Mark 13:11 - 13
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Luke 21:12 - 19
But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
2 Timothy 4:16 - 17
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
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Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.
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Luke 12:12
For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very...
Acts 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said t...
Acts 6:10
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the...
Acts 13:9
But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with...
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his...
2 Corinthians 13:3
Since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in...
Matthew 10:40
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever r...
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that...
Hebrews 1:1
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God s...
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John 15:26
But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
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Matthew 10:35 - 36
For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
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Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
John 15:18 - 21
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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Matthew 24:13
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Mark 13:13
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake...
Daniel 12:12 - 13
Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,33...
James 5:11
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained ...
Revelation 2:10
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behol...
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a so...
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Matthew 23:34
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
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Matthew 12:15
Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And ...
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his execution. And there a...
Acts 9:25
But his disciples took him by night and let him...
Acts 9:30
And when the brothers learned this, they brough...
Acts 14:6
They learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe...
Acts 17:10
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas aw...
Acts 17:14
Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on ...
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Matthew 16:28
Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
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