| 14 | And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. |
| 15 | Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomor'rah than for that town. |
| 16 | "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. |
| 17 | Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, |
| 18 | and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. |
| 19 | When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; |
| 20 | for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. |
| 21 | Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; |
| 22 | and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. |
| 23 | When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes. |
| 24 | "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master; |
| 25 | it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Be-el'zebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. |
| 26 | "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. |
| 27 | What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops. |
| 28 | And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. |
| 29 | Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will. |
| 30 | But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. |
| 31 | Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. |
| 32 | So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; |
| 33 | but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. |
| 34 | "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. |
| 35 | For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; |
| 36 | and a man's foes will be those of his own household. |
| 37 | He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; |
| 38 | and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. |
| 39 | He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. |
| 40 | "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. |