Matthew 10:16

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁵ I tell you, the punishment on the day of judgment will be lighter for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. ¹⁶  "Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷ Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

Harmless as Doves

Here I Am

It is I

Innocent As Doves

Pay Attention

No

Luke 10:3

Go on. Listen! I am sending you out as lambs surrounded by wolves.

Acts 20:29

Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ.

Philippians 2:15

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you such wisdom of speech as all your opponents combined will not be able to resist and refute.

Romans 16:18-19

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

2 Corinthians 8:20

I am arranging it so that no one can blame me in the matter of this munificent fund that is being handled by me.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Ephesians 5:15-17

So you must be very careful how you live, not thoughtlessly but thoughtfully,

Colossians 1:9

This is why, ever since I heard of it, I have never ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full wisdom and spiritual insight, with a clear knowledge of His will,

Colossians 4:5

Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.