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

^{17 Ref} But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;

^{18 Ref} yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

^{19 Ref} But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

^{20 Ref} For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

^{21 Ref} And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

^{22 Ref} And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

^{23 Ref} But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

^{24 Ref} A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

^{25 Ref} It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!