If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 10:13 in context
Matthew 10:10–16
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Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
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Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go on.
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As you enter into the household, greet it.
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If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
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Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
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Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
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“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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