9. Workers deserve to be fed, so don’t gather gold or silver or copper coins for your money belts to take on your trips.
10. Don’t take a backpack for the road or two shirts or sandals or a walking stick.
11. Whatever city or village you go into, find somebody in it who is worthy and stay there until you go on your way.
12. When you go into a house, say, ‘Peace!’
13. If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if the house isn’t worthy, take back your blessing.
14. If anyone refuses to welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or city.
15. I assure you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than it will be for that city.
16. “Look, I’m sending you as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be wise as snakes and innocent as doves.
17. Watch out for people—because they will hand you over to councils and they will beat you in their synagogues.
18. They will haul you in front of governors and even kings because of me so that you may give your testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
19. Whenever they hand you over, don’t worry about how to speak or what you will say, because what you can say will be given to you at that moment.
20. You aren’t doing the talking, but the Spirit of my Father is doing the talking through you.
21. Brothers and sisters will hand each other over to be executed. A father will turn his child in. Children will defy their parents and have them executed.