"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;

"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.

"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.

I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.