“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.