If the people there welcome you, let your peace stay there. But if they don’t welcome you, take back the peace you wished for them.
Yet when they were sick, I put on clothes of sadness and showed my sorrow by fasting. But my prayers were not answered.
When you enter that home, say, ‘Peace be with you.’
And if a home or town refuses to welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake its dust off your feet.
If peace-loving people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you.
To those who are lost, we are the smell of death that brings death, but to those who are being saved, we are the smell of life that brings life. So who is able to do this work?