Matthew 10:16 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves. [Gen. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ “Look, I’m sending you as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be wise as snakes and innocent as doves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be as prudent as serpents and as simple as doves.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Matthew 10:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Nehemiah 4:13

I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Jeremiah 40:16

And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of Caree: Do not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false.

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.

Matthew 24:25

Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

Matthew 24:45

Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season.

Matthew 25:2

And five of them were foolish, and five wise.

Matthew 25:4

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

Matthew 25:9

The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Luke 10:3

Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves.

Luke 21:15

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

Acts 20:29

I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 8:20

Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us.

Philippians 2:15

That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Colossians 1:9

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

Colossians 4:5

Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and without blame, we have been to you that have believed:

1 Thessalonians 5:22

From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.