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Matthew 10:14

12 As you enter the home, greet its occupants.

13 If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not, let your peace return to you.

And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
KJV
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
WEB
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.
ASV
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.
DARBY
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
BLB
And whoever may not receive you⁺ nor hear your⁺ words, going forth out of the house or that city, shake off the dust of your⁺ feet.
ÅB
Om noen ikke tar imot dere og ikke hører på ordene deres, gå ut av huset eller byen og rist støvet av føttene!
OTB
Hvis noen ikke tar imot dere eller lytter til deres ord, forlat det huset eller den byen og rist støvet av føttene deres.
B1930
Og om nogen ikke tar imot eder og ikke hører på eders ord, da gå ut av det hus eller den by, og ryst støvet av eders føtter!

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  • Luke 10:10–11

    But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

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  • Acts 18:6

    But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

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  • Nehemiah 5:13

    I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

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  • Acts 13:51

    So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

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  • Mark 6:11

    If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”

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  • Luke 9:5

    If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”

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  • 1 Thessalonians 4:8

    Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

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  • John 13:20

    Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

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