Matthew 10:16

Jesus sends His disciples into danger like sheep among wolves, urging shrewd yet innocent conduct. They must combine wisdom with harmlessness amid hostility.

Cross-references · 17

• Phil 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• Luke 10:3Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
• Col 4:5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
• Eph 5:15–17Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
• Rom 16:18–19For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• Acts 20:29For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
• Gen 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
• 1 Th 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
• Col 1:9For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 2 Cor 8:20We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
• 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
• Gen 3:13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

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