Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the h
For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your sim
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did G
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with t
For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relatio
You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”