Matthew 10:16

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁵ I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. ¹⁶ “Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves. ¹⁷ Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.

Harmless as Doves

Here I Am

It is I

Innocent As Doves

Pay Attention

No

Luke 10:3

Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

Genesis 3:13

So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”

Luke 21:15

for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

Romans 16:18-19

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

2 Corinthians 8:20

We are taking this precaution so no one can criticize us about this large sum administered by us.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Ephesians 5:15-17

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

Colossians 1:9

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 4:5

Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Stay away from every kind of evil.