Matthew 10

1He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.Cross-references: Matt 6:13 · Matt 19:28 · Matt 26:20 · Matt 26:47 · Matt 28:18 · Mark 3:13 · +17 more

2Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;Cross-references: Matt 4:18 · Matt 4:21 · Matt 16:16 · Matt 17:1 · Matt 20:20 · Matt 26:37 · +34 more

3Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;Cross-references: Matt 9:9 · Matt 27:56 · Mark 2:14 · Mark 3:18 · Luke 5:27 · Luke 6:14 · +16 more

4Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.Cross-references: Matt 26:14 · Matt 26:47 · Matt 27:3 · Mark 3:18 · Mark 14:10 · Mark 14:43 · +10 more

5Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:24 · Matt 4:15 · Matt 22:3 · Luke 9:2 · Luke 9:52 · Luke 10:1 · +17 more

6Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Cross-references: Ps 119:176 · Isa 53:6 · Jer 50:6 · Jer 50:17 · Ezek 34:6 · Ezek 34:8 · +12 more

7As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’Cross-references: Isa 61:1 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:17 · Matt 11:1 · Matt 11:11 · Matt 21:31 · +12 more

8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:15 · 2Ki 5:20 · Matt 10:1 · Mark 16:18 · Luke 10:9 · Acts 3:6 · +5 more

9Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.Cross-references: Mark 6:8 · Luke 9:3 · Luke 10:4 · Luke 22:35 · 1Cor 9:7

10Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:7 · 1Sam 17:40 · Luke 3:11 · Luke 10:7 · 1Cor 9:4 · Gal 6:6 · +2 more

11Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go on.Cross-references: Gen 19:1 · Judg 19:16 · 1Ki 17:9 · Job 31:32 · Mark 6:10 · Luke 9:4 · +6 more

12As you enter into the household, greet it.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:6 · Luke 10:5 · Acts 10:36 · 2Cor 5:20 · 3John 1:14

13If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.Cross-references: Ps 35:13 · Luke 10:6 · 2Cor 2:16

14Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.Cross-references: Neh 5:13 · Matt 10:40 · Matt 18:5 · Mark 6:11 · Mark 9:37 · Luke 9:5 · +7 more

15Most 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.Cross-references: Ezek 16:48 · Matt 5:18 · Matt 11:22 · Matt 12:36 · Matt 24:34 · Mark 6:11 · +6 more

16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Gen 3:13 · Luke 10:3 · Luke 21:15 · Acts 20:29 · Rom 16:18 · +11 more

17But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.Cross-references: Deut 25:2 · Mic 7:5 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 20:19 · Matt 23:34 · Matt 24:9 · +18 more

18Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Matt 8:4 · Mark 13:9 · Acts 5:25 · Acts 12:1 · Acts 23:33 · +6 more

19But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.Cross-references: Ex 4:12 · Ex 4:15 · Jer 1:7 · Jer 1:9 · Dan 3:16 · Matt 6:25 · +12 more

20For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:2 · Matt 6:32 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 11:13 · Luke 12:12 · Luke 12:30 · +10 more

21“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:11 · 2Sam 17:1 · Job 19:19 · Mic 7:5 · Zech 13:3 · Matt 10:34 · +4 more

22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.Cross-references: Isa 66:5 · Dan 12:12 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:39 · Matt 24:9 · Matt 24:13 · +21 more

23But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.Cross-references: Matt 2:13 · Matt 4:12 · Matt 12:14 · Matt 16:28 · Matt 23:34 · Matt 24:27 · +19 more

24“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.Cross-references: 2Sam 11:11 · Luke 6:40 · John 13:16 · John 15:20 · Heb 12:2

25It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!Cross-references: Matt 9:34 · Matt 12:24 · Mark 3:22 · Luke 11:15 · John 7:20 · John 8:48 · +2 more

26Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.Cross-references: Prov 28:1 · Prov 29:25 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 51:7 · +14 more

27What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.Cross-references: Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:1 · Matt 13:1 · Matt 13:34 · Luke 8:10 · John 16:1 · +7 more

28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.Cross-references: Ps 119:120 · Eccl 5:7 · Eccl 8:12 · Isa 8:12 · Isa 51:7 · Isa 51:12 · +22 more

29“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.Cross-references: Ps 104:27 · Luke 12:6

30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:45 · 2Sam 14:11 · 1Ki 1:52 · Luke 12:7 · Luke 21:18 · Acts 27:34

31Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.Cross-references: Ps 8:5 · Matt 6:26 · Matt 12:11 · Luke 12:24 · 1Cor 9:9

32Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · Ps 119:46 · Matt 25:34 · Luke 12:8 · John 9:22 · Rom 10:9 · +5 more

33But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: Matt 26:70 · Mark 8:38 · Mark 14:30 · Mark 14:72 · Luke 9:26 · Luke 12:9 · +3 more

34“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.Cross-references: Jer 15:10 · Luke 12:49 · John 7:40 · Acts 13:45 · Acts 14:2 · Acts 14:4

35For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.Cross-references: Mic 7:5 · Matt 10:21 · Matt 24:10 · Mark 13:12 · Luke 21:16

36A man’s foes will be those of his own household.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 4:8 · Gen 37:17 · 1Sam 17:28 · 2Sam 16:11 · Job 19:13 · +6 more

37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.Cross-references: Deut 33:9 · Matt 22:8 · Matt 22:37 · Luke 14:26 · Luke 20:35 · Luke 21:36 · +6 more

38He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.Cross-references: Matt 16:24 · Matt 27:32 · Mark 8:34 · Mark 10:21 · Luke 9:23 · Luke 14:27 · +1 more

39He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.Cross-references: Matt 16:25 · Mark 8:35 · Luke 9:24 · Luke 17:33 · John 12:25 · Phil 1:20 · +2 more

40“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.Cross-references: Matt 18:5 · Matt 25:40 · Matt 25:45 · Mark 9:37 · Luke 9:48 · Luke 10:16 · +10 more

41He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.Cross-references: Gen 20:7 · 1Ki 17:9 · 1Ki 17:20 · 1Ki 18:3 · 2Ki 4:8 · 2Ki 4:16 · +18 more

42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”Cross-references: Prov 24:14 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 8:5 · Matt 18:3 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 18:14 · +11 more