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16 ) Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be all of you therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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17 ) But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues,
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18 ) And all of you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
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19 ) But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what all of you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what all of you shall speak.
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20 ) For it is not all of you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.
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21 ) And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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22 ) And all of you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
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23 ) But when they persecute you in this city, flee all of you into another: for verily I say unto you, All of you shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.