Matthew 10:16-25 - Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁶ Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves. ¹⁷ And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you. ¹⁸ And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. ¹⁹ And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. ²⁰ For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.

²¹ And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child: and children shall rise up in revolt against parents, and kill them. ²² And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved. ²³ And when they drive you out in this city, flee ye to another; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man come. ²⁴ The disciple is not above the teacher, nor the servant above his lord. ²⁵ Sufficient to the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzeboul, how much more those pertaining to his household?

⁹ Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name. ¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many. ¹² And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled. ¹³ But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved. ¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole habitable globe for a witness to all nations: and then shall the end come.

⁹ And see ye to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues shall ye be stripped: and shall be set before rulers and kings for my sake, for testimony to them. ¹⁰ And the good news must first be proclaimed to all nations. ¹¹ And when delivering up, they bring you, take no care beforehand what ye speak, neither bestow attention: but whatever should be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for not ye are speaking, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and kill them. ¹³ And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.

¹² And before all these shall they cast their hands upon you, and drive out, delivering to assemblies, and prisons, being brought before kings and leaders for my name's sake. ¹³ And it shall turn out to you for a testimony. ¹⁴ Set therefore in your hearts, not to practise beforehand to justify yourselves: ¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand. ¹⁶ And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death. ¹⁷ And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake. ¹⁸ And there shall not a hair of your head perish. ¹⁹ In your patience possess ye your souls.

¹ These have I spoken, that ye should not be offended. ² They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God. ³ And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me. ⁴ But these have I spoken to you, that when the hour should come, ye should remember them, for I said to you. And these I said not to you from the beginning, for I was with you.