Matthew 10:16

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁵ I tell you, the land of Sodom and Gomorrah will fare better on the Day of Judgment than that town. ¹⁶  "Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves. ¹⁷ But be on your guard against men, for they will give you up to their courts, and have you flogged in their synagogues,

Harmless as Doves

Here I Am

It is I

Innocent As Doves

Pay Attention

No

Luke 10:3

Now go. Here I send you out like lambs among wolves.

Acts 20:29

I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

Philippians 2:15

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you such wisdom of utterance as none of your opponents will be able to resist or dispute.

Romans 16:18-19

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

2 Corinthians 8:20

I mean to have no one able to find any fault with the way I handle this munificence.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel.

Ephesians 5:15-17

Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,

Colossians 1:9

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

Colossians 4:5

Use wisdom in dealing with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

and avoiding every kind of evil.