ISV(i)
16 Future Persecutions
“Pay attention, now! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves.
17 Watch out for people who will hand you over to the local councils and whip you in their synagogues.
18 You will be brought before governors and kings because of me, to testify to them and to unbelievers.
19 When they hand you over, don’t worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you.
20 It won’t be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21“Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.
22 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
23 So when they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, because I tell all of you with certainty that you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24“A disciple is not above his teacher, and a slave is not above his master.
25 It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they do the same to those of his household!”
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