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Matthew 10:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. "
Matthew 10:14
Verse in Context
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12 As you enter into the household, greet it.
13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
15 Most 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.
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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Matthew 10:1
"He 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."
Matthew 10:2
"Now 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;"
Matthew 10:3
"Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;"
Matthew 10:4
"Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him."
Matthew 10:5
"Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans."
Matthew 10:6
"Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
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