“And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; And my prayer would return to my own bosom.
“And as you enter into a house, greet it.
“And whoever does not receive you nor hear your words, when you leave that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
“And if indeed a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest on it; and if not, it shall return to you.
To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?