13 If the home is deserving, let your blessing remain with them. But if the home doesn't accept you, 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 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 synagogues.
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.