Matthew 10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Matthew 10The Twelve Apostles

1 summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness.

2These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee and his brother John;

3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus;

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8Cure the sick; raise the dead; cleanse those with a skin disease; cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.

9Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts,

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29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

30Lk 21.18; Acts 27.34And even the hairs of your head are all counted.

31So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

32 Rom 10.9; 2 Tim 2.12; Rev 3.5 “Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven,

33but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.

Not Peace, but a Sword

34 Mk 13.12; Lk 12.51–53 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

35 Mic 7.6 For I have come to set a man against his father,

and a daughter against her mother,

and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

36 Mic 7.6 and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.

37 Lk 14.26 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,

38Mt 16.24and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

39Mt 16.25; Lk 17.33; Jn 12.25Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Rewards

40 Lk 9.48; Jn 12.44; Gal 4.14 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

41Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous,

42Mt 25.40; Heb 6.10and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”