bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat<n id="1" /> you.

Go! I<n id="1" /> am sending you out like lambs<n id="2" /> surrounded by wolves.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Blessed are you when people<n id="1" /> hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil<n id="2" /> on account of the Son of Man!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies,<n id="1" /> do good to those who hate you,

Whenever<n id="1" /> you enter a town<n id="2" /> and the people<n id="3" /> welcome you, eat what is set before you.

Heal<n id="1" /> the sick in that town<n id="2" /> and say to them, &#8216;The kingdom of God<n id="3" /> has come upon<n id="4" /> you!&#8217;

But whenever<n id="1" /> you enter a town<n id="2" /> and the people<n id="3" /> do not welcome<n id="4" /> you, go into its streets<n id="5" /> and say,

But if I cast out demons by the finger<n id="1" /> of God, then the kingdom of God<n id="2" /> has already overtaken<n id="3" /> you.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment<n id="1" /> what you must say.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

But Jesus<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Man,<n id="2" /> who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?&#8221;<n id="3" />

If anyone asks you, &#8216;Why are you untying it?&#8217; just say, &#8216;The Lord needs<n id="1" /> it.&#8217;&#8221;

He answered them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Simon,<n id="1" /> Simon, pay attention!<n id="2" /> Satan has demanded to have you all,<n id="3" /> to sift you like wheat,<n id="4" />

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to them, &#8220;I ask you,<n id="2" /> is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?&#8221;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Woe to you<n id="1" /> when all people<n id="2" /> speak well of you, for their ancestors<n id="3" /> did the same things to the false prophets.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If<n id="1" /> you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners<n id="2" /> love those who love them.<n id="3" />

And<n id="1" /> if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even<n id="2" /> sinners<n id="3" /> do the same.

Wherever<n id="1" /> they do not receive you,<n id="2" /> as you leave that town,<n id="3" /> shake the dust off<n id="4" /> your feet as a testimony against them.&#8221;

And if a peace-loving person<n id="1" /> is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The one who listens<n id="1" /> to you listens to me,<n id="2" /> and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects<n id="3" /> the one who sent me.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>