These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Matthew 10
Brit Hadashah 42 verses
- 1 Then He called to Him His twelve disciples and gave them authority over foul spirits, to drive them out; and to cure every kind of disease and infirmity.
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Now the names of the twelve Apostles were these: first, Simon called , and his brother Andrew; the son of Zabdi, and his brother ;
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Matthew 4:18 Matthew 4:21 Acts 1:13 Matthew 26:37 John 13:23 John 21:20 Luke 5:10 Luke 11:49 Luke 22:14 Revelation 1:9 Mark 3:16-19 1 John 1:3-4 Mark 1:16-17 Hebrews 3:1 John 20:2 Revelation 18:20 John 21:24 Ephesians 4:11 Acts 12:2 Matthew 20:20 Mark 13:3 Mark 1:29 Acts 3:1 Matthew 16:16-18 1 Corinthians 15:7 John 12:22 Revelation 22:8 Luke 22:8 Revelation 1:1 John 6:8 Acts 1:26 2 John 1:1 2 Peter 1:1 3 John 1:1 John 1:40-42 Matthew 17:1 Luke 9:10 Luke 6:13-16 1 Peter 1:1 John 21:2 - 3 Philip and Bartholomew, and the tax-gatherer, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
- 4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas the Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.
- 5 These twelve sent on a mission, after giving them their instructions: “Go not,” He said, “among the Gentiles, and enter no Samaritan town;
- 6 but, instead of that, go to the lost sheep of Israel’s race.
- 7 And as you go, preach and say, ‘The Kingdom of the Heavens is close at hand.’
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Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.
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“Provide no gold, nor even silver nor copper to carry in your pockets;
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no bag for your journey, nor change of linen, nor shoes, nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.
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- 11 “Whatever town or village you enter, inquire for some good man; and make his house your home till you leave the place.
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When you enter the house, salute it;
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and if the house deserves it, the you invoke shall come upon it. If not, your shall return to you.
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- 14 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.
- 15 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.
- 16 “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.
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But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;
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Mark 13:9 Matthew 23:34 Acts 26:11 Matthew 5:22 Luke 12:11 Acts 22:19 Luke 21:12-13 Acts 23:1-22 John 11:47 Matthew 24:9-10 2 Timothy 4:15 Matthew 26:59 Deuteronomy 25:2-3 Mark 13:12 John 16:2 Hebrews 11:36 2 Corinthians 11:24-26 Matthew 20:19 Acts 5:26-42 Philippians 3:2 Acts 4:6-22 Micah 7:5 Acts 17:14 Acts 14:5-6 - 18 and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.
- 19 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;
- 20 for it is not you who will speak: it will be the of your Father speaking through you.
- 21 Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.
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And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my ; but he who holds out to the End—he will be saved.
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Matthew 24:13 Mark 13:13 Revelation 2:10 James 1:12 Matthew 10:39 1 John 3:13 Hebrews 6:11 Luke 8:15 Matthew 24:9 Matthew 5:11 Revelation 3:21 Galatians 6:9 Romans 2:7 John 15:18-21 Jude 1:20-21 Hebrews 3:14 John 17:14 John 7:7 Revelation 2:3 Daniel 12:12-13 Luke 6:22 Isaiah 66:5-6 Revelation 2:26 Acts 9:16 Revelation 2:17 2 Corinthians 4:11 Revelation 2:7 -
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Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round of all the towns of before the Son of Man comes.
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Acts 17:10 Acts 8:1 Matthew 16:28 Acts 14:6-7 Acts 17:14 Matthew 2:13 Matthew 24:30 Matthew 4:12 Matthew 12:14-15 John 10:39-42 Acts 9:24-25 Matthew 25:13 Acts 13:50-51 Matthew 24:48 Luke 18:8 Matthew 23:34 Luke 4:29-31 Acts 14:19-20 Acts 20:1 Matthew 26:64 John 11:53-54 Mark 13:26 Luke 21:27 John 7:1 Matthew 24:27 -
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“The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the is never superior to his master.
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Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
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- 26 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.
- 27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses.
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“And do not those who kill the body, but cannot kill the ; but rather him who is able to destroy both and body in .
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Isaiah 8:12-13 Luke 12:4-5 2 Thessalonians 1:8-10 Isaiah 51:12 Hebrews 12:28-29 Hebrews 10:31 Jeremiah 5:22 Luke 16:22-26 James 4:12 Revelation 2:10 Ecclesiastes 5:7 Romans 8:35-39 1 Peter 3:14 Isaiah 66:2 Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 Matthew 25:46 Isaiah 51:7 Psalm 119:120 Revelation 20:10-15 Daniel 3:10-18 Acts 20:23-24 2 Timothy 4:6-8 Matthew 5:22 Mark 9:43-48 Acts 21:13 Hebrews 11:35 John 5:29 Matthew 10:26 -
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Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s leave.
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But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.
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Away then with ; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.
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- 32 “Every man who acknowledges me before men I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in Heaven.
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But whoever disowns me before men I also will disown before my Father who is in Heaven.
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“Do not suppose that I came to bring to the earth: I did not come to bring but a sword.
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For I came to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in- against her mother-in-;
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- 36 and a man’s own family will be his foes.
- 37 Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
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and any one who does not take up his cross and follow where I lead is not worthy of me.
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To your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to it.
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- 40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives Him who sent me.
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Every one who receives a , because he is a , will receive a prophet’s reward, and every one who receives a righteous man, because he is a righteous man, will receive a righteous man’s reward.
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3 John 1:5-8 2 Kings 4:8-10 2 John 1:8 2 Kings 4:16-17 2 Kings 4:32-37 Luke 14:13-14 Genesis 20:7 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7 Matthew 6:4 Romans 16:1-4 Isaiah 3:10 Acts 16:15 2 Timothy 1:16-18 Romans 16:23 Hebrews 6:10 Matthew 6:6 1 Kings 17:9-15 Matthew 6:1 1 Kings 18:3-4 1 Kings 17:20-24 Matthew 25:34-40 Matthew 16:27 1 Corinthians 9:17 Matthew 6:18 - 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink because he is a , I solemnly tell you that he will not lose his reward.”