'Warning of persecutions

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Mt 10:16: Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Mt 10:17: But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

Mt 10:18: And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Mt 10:19: But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Mt 10:20: For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Mt 10:21: 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.

Mt 10:22: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Mt 10:23: But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.