Matthew 10:16-23 'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be you therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

RYLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ 'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be you therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves. ¹⁷ And, take you heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrins, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, ¹⁸ and before governors and kings you shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. ¹⁹ 'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what you may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what you shall speak; ²⁰ for you are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you. ²¹ 'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death, ²² and you shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who has endured to the end, he shall be saved. ²³ 'And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, you may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.