Matthew 10:16

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:13

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, In the open places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Jeremiah 40:16

But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Matthew 24:25

Behold, I have told you beforehand.

Matthew 24:45

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Matthew 25:2

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 25:4

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Matthew 25:9

But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Luke 10:3

Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in mind: howbeit in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

2 Corinthians 8:20

Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us:

Philippians 2:15

that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 4:5

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.