nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.
010:011 "Whatever town or village you enter, inquire for some good man;
and make his house your home till you leave the place.
010:012 When you enter the house, salute it;
010:013 and if the house deserves it, the peace you invoke shall come
upon it. If not, your peace shall return to you.
010:014 And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message,
as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust
from your feet.
010:015 I solemnly tell you that it will be more endurable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of Judgement than for that town.
010:016 "Remember it is I who am sending you out, as sheep into
the midst of wolves; prove yourselves as sagacious as serpents,
and as innocent as doves.
010:017 But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear
before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;
010:018 and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings
for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.
010:019 But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how
you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time
it shall be given you what to say;
010:020 for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit
of your Father speaking through you.
010:021 Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child;
and children will rise against their own parents and will put
them to death.
010:022 And you will be objects of universal hatred because you
are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End--
he will be saved.
010:023 Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next;