Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Bible References

I send

Matthew 10:16
"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.
John 15:20
"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
John 16:2
"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.
Acts 9:2
and begged of him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any that were of the Way, either men or women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.

Wolves

Matthew 7:15
"Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are ravening wolves.
John 10:12
"The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming??nd the wolf worries them and scatters them.
Acts 20:29
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock;