| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Summoning His 12 disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every disease and sickness. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2These are the names of the 12 apostles: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: "Don't take the road leading to other nations, and don't enter any Samaritan town. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As you go, announce this: 'The kingdom of heaven has come near.' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, drive out demons. You have received free of charge; give free of charge. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Don't take along gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Don't take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy, and stay there until you leave. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Greet a household when you enter it, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it. But if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Look, I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But when they hand you over, don't worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24A disciple is not above his teacher, or a slave above his master. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more the members of his household! |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Therefore, don't be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won't be uncovered and nothing hidden that won't be made known. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper, proclaim on the housetops. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Don't fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's consent. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But even the hairs of your head have all been counted. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So don't be afraid therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father in heaven. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Don't assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36and a man's enemies will be the members of his household. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38And whoever doesn't take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40"The one who welcomes you welcomes Me, and the one who welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he's righteous will receive a righteous person's reward. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And whoever gives just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple --I assure you: He will never lose his reward!" |
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