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Matthew 10:14-16
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14 (A) If someone won't welcome you or listen to your message, leave their home or town. And shake the dust from your feet at them.[a] 15 (B) I promise you the day of judgment will be easier for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah[b] than for that town.

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(Mark 13.9-13; Luke 21.12-17)

16 (C) I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves.

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Footnotes

  1. 10.14 shake the dust from your feet at them: This was a way of showing rejection (see Acts 13.51).
  2. 10.15 Sodom and Gomorrah: During the time of Abraham the Lord destroyed these towns because the people there were so evil.
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Matthew 10:14-16
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14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.(A) 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah(B) on the day of judgment(C) than for that town.(D)

16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.(E) Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.(F)

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