Matthew 10:16 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶ “Listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be smart like snakes. But also be like doves and don’t hurt anyone.

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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.

Matthew 10:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:1

The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, “Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?”

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?” She said, “The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit.”

Nehemiah 4:13

So I put some of the people behind the lowest places along the wall, and I put them by the holes in the wall. I put families together, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Jeremiah 40:16

But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Don’t kill Ishmael. The things you are saying about Ishmael are not true.”

Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove without understanding. The people called to Egypt for help. They went to Assyria for help.

Matthew 24:25

Now I have warned you about this before it happens.

Matthew 24:45

“Who is the wise and trusted servant? The master trusts one servant to give the other servants their food at the right time. Who is the one the master trusts to do that work?

Matthew 25:2

Five of the girls were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 25:4

The wise girls took their lamps and more oil in jars.

Matthew 25:9

“The wise girls answered, ‘No! The oil we have might not be enough for all of us. But go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

Luke 10:3

“You can go now. But listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves.

Luke 21:15

I will give you the wisdom to say things that none of your enemies can answer.

Acts 20:29

I know that after I leave, some men will come into your group. They will be like wild wolves and will try to destroy the flock.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, don’t think like children. In evil things be like babies, but in your thinking you should be like full-grown adults.

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is what we are proud of, and I can say with a clear conscience that it is true: In everything we have done in the world, we have done it with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even truer in what we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace, not by the kind of wisdom the world has.

2 Corinthians 11:14

That does not surprise us, because even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This could happen just as Eve was tricked by that snake with his clever lies.

2 Corinthians 8:20

We are being careful so that no one will criticize us about the way we are caring for this large gift.

Philippians 2:15

so that you will be blameless and pure, children of God without any fault. But you are living with evil people all around you, who have lost their sense of what is right. Among those people you shine like lights in a dark world,

Colossians 1:9

Since the day we heard these things about you, we have continued praying for you. This is what we pray: that God will make you completely sure of what he wants by giving you all the wisdom and spiritual understanding you need;

Colossians 4:5

Be wise in the way you act with those who are not believers. Use your time in the best way you can.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

When we were there with you believers, we were pure, honest, and without fault in the way we lived. You know, just as God does, that this is true.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

and stay away from everything that is evil.