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Matthew 10:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Watch out for people who will take you to court and have you beaten in their meeting places.

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Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love.

Because of me, you will be dragged before rulers and kings to tell them and the Gentiles about your faith.

and then they will hand him over to foreigners who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.

I will send prophets and wise people and experts in the Law of Moses to you. But you will kill them or nail them to a cross or beat them in your meeting places or chase them from town to town.

The chief priests and the whole council wanted to put Jesus to death. So they tried to find some people who would tell lies about him in court.

But I promise you that if you are angry with someone, you will have to stand trial. If you call someone a fool, you will be taken to court. And if you say that someone is worthless, you will be in danger of the fires of hell.

Brothers and sisters will betray each other and have each other put to death. Parents will betray their own children, and children will turn against their parents and have them killed.

Be on your guard! You will be taken to courts and beaten with whips in their meeting places. And because of me, you will have to stand before rulers and kings to tell about your faith.

When you are brought to trial in the Jewish meeting places or before rulers or officials, don't worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What should we do? This man is performing a lot of miracles.

You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favour.

Straight away the followers sent Paul down to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

I replied, “Lord, they know that in many of our meeting places I arrested and beat people who had faith in you.

I often had them punished in our meeting places, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.

and asked for letters to the Jewish leaders in Damascus. He did this because he wanted to arrest and take to Jerusalem any man or woman who had accepted the Lord's Way.

Watch out for those people who behave like dogs! They are evil and want to do more than just circumcise you.

Alexander opposes what we preach. You had better watch out for him.

Others were made fun of and beaten with whips, and some were chained in jail.




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