Verse 16

Behold, I send you as sheepe in the middes of the wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doues.

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 10:3 : 3 Goe your wayes: beholde, I send you foorth as lambes among wolues.
  • Acts 20:29 : 29 For I knowe this, that after my departing shall grieuous wolues enter in among you, not sparing the flocke.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in vnderstanding, but as concerning maliciousnes be children, but in vnderstanding be of a ripe age.
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corrupt fro the simplicitie that is in Christ.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walke wisely towarde them that are without, and redeeme the season.
  • Gen 3:1 : 1 Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
  • Rom 16:18-19 : 18 For they that are such, serue not the Lorde Iesus Christ, but their owne bellies, and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the heartes of the simple. 19 For your obedience is come abroade among all: I am glad therefore of you: but yet I woulde haue you wise vnto that which is good, and simple concerning euill.
  • Eph 5:15-17 : 15 Take heede therefore that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise, 16 Redeeming ye season: for ye daies are euill. 17 Wherefore, be ye not vnwise, but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is.
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Absteine from all appearance of euill.
  • 2 Cor 11:14 : 14 And no marueile: for Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light.
  • Col 1:9 : 9 For this cause wee also, since the day wee heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be fulfilled with knowledge of his will in all wisdome, and spirituall vnderstanding,
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
  • 2 Cor 8:20 : 20 Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will giue you a mouth and wisdome, where against all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake, nor resist.