²⁰ avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

¹⁶ `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

¹⁶ Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

³ and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;

¹² and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

¹⁵ See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

²² from all appearance of evil abstain ye;