12. When you go to a home, give it your blessing of peace.
13. If the home is deserving, let your blessing remain with them. But if the home isn't deserving, take back your blessing of peace.
14. If someone won't welcome you or listen to your message, leave their home or town. And shake the dust from your feet at them.
15. I promise you that the day of judgment will be easier for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
16. I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves.
17. Watch out for people who will take you to court and have you beaten in their meeting places.
18. Because of me, you will be dragged before rulers and kings to tell them and the Gentiles about your faith.
19. But when someone arrests you, don't worry about what you will say or how you will say it. At that time you will be given the words to say.
20. But you will not really be the one speaking. The Spirit from your Father will tell you what to say.
21. Brothers and sisters will betray one another and have each other put to death. Parents will betray their own children, and children will turn against their parents and have them killed.
22. Everyone will hate you because of me. But if you remain faithful until the end, you will be saved.
23. When people ill-treat you in one town, hurry to another one. I promise you that before you have gone to all the towns of Israel, the Son of Man will come.
24. Disciples are not better than their teacher, and slaves are not better than their master.
25. It is enough for disciples to be like their teacher and for slaves to be like their master. If people call the head of the family Satan, what will they say about the rest of the family?
26. Don't be afraid of anyone! Everything that is hidden will be found out, and every secret will be known.