KJV King James Version
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Luke 10:3
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
WEB World English Bible
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
ASV American Standard Version
Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Go away; lo, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves;
Surrounding context — Luke 10
1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly [is] great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
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Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.John 15:20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.Ezekiel 2:3-6And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even] unto this very day.John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.Acts 9:2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.Psalm 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.Psalm 22:12-16Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
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