Matthew 10:16 Cross References - MLV

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, become prudent like serpents and harmless like doves.

¹ Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, because God has said, You will not eat of any tree of the garden?

¹³ And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this that you have done?
And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

³ Go, behold, I am sending you forth like lambs in the midst of wolves.

¹⁵ For I will be giving you a mouth and wisdom, which all who lay in opposition to you will not be able to stand against, nor to speak against.

²⁹ I know this: after my goodbye, cruel wolves will be entering into you, not sparing the flock;

¹⁸ For such are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.
¹⁹ For your obedience has reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish for you to be indeed wise as to what is good, and harmless to what is evil.

²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in your mindsets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mindsets.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

²⁰ We are avoiding this thing, lest anyone might blame us in the matter of this lavish donation which is served by us;

³ But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted away from the clarity and the purity which is leading to the Christ.

¹⁴ And it is not a marvelous thing; for even the Adversary fashions himself into a messenger of light.

¹⁵ Therefore beware, how accurately you are walking, not as unwise, but as wise; ¹⁶ buying up the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁵ in order that you might become blameless and harmless children of God, flawless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as illuminations in the world.

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, buying up the time.

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe.

²² Abstain from every form of evil.