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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 10 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Matthew 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/9.htm" title="Matthew 9">◄</a> Matthew 10 <a href="../matthew/11.htm" title="Matthew 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/matthew/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Appoints Twelve Apostles</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/3.htm">Mark 3:13-19</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/6.htm">Luke 6:12-16</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:1 Lit. he">a</a></span> called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and every illness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:3 Other mss. read Lebbaeus called Thaddaeus">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Simon the Cananaean<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Cananaean is Aram. for Zealot.">c</a></span> and Judas Iscariot, who later<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Lit. also">d</a></span> betrayed Jesus.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Lit. him">e</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/6.htm">Mark 6:7-13</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/9.htm">Luke 9:1-6</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>These were the Twelve whom Jesus sent out after he had given them these<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 The Gk. lacks these">f</a></span> instructions: <span class="red">“Don’t turn on to the road that leads to the unbelievers,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lit. gentiles ; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews">g</a></span> and don’t enter Samaritan towns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Instead, go to the lost sheep of the nation<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:6 Lit. house">h</a></span> of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As you go, make this announcement: ‘The kingdom from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:7 Lit. of">i</a></span> heaven is near!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons.</span></p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="red">You have received without payment,</span></p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot"><span class="red">so give without payment.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Don’t take any gold, silver, or copper in your moneybags, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>or a traveling bag for the trip, or an extra shirt,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:10 Lit. two shirts">j</a></span> or sandals, or a walking stick, because a worker deserves his food.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">“Whatever town or village you enter, find out who is receptive<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 Lit. worthy">k</a></span> in it and stay there until you leave. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As you enter the house, greet its occupants.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 The Gk. lacks its occupants">l</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If the household is receptive,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:13 Lit. worthy">m</a></span> let your blessing of peace come on it. But if it isn’t receptive,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:13 Lit. worthy">n</a></span> let your blessing of peace return to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:15 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">o</a></span> with certainty, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!”</span></p> <p class="heading">Future Persecutions</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/matthew/24.htm">Matthew 24:9-14</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/13.htm">Mark 13:9-13</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/21.htm">Luke 21:12-19</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">“Pay attention, now! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Watch out for people who will hand you over to the local councils and whip you in their synagogues. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You will be brought before governors and kings because of me, to testify to them and to unbelievers.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:18 Lit. gentiles ; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews">p</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When they hand you over, don’t worry about how you are to speak<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:19 The Gk. lacks you are to speak">q</a></span> or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It won’t be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:20 Or in">r</a></span> you.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">“Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So when they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, because I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:23 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">s</a></span> with certainty that you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">“A disciple is not above his teacher, and a slave is not above his master. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:25 The name means Lord of the Flies; i.e. Satan">t</a></span> how much more will they do the same to<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:25 The Gk. lacks will they do the same to">u</a></span> those of his household!”</span></p> <p class="heading">Fear God</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.htm">Luke 12:2-7</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“So never be afraid of them, because there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not be made known. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>What I tell you in darkness you must speak in the daylight, and what is whispered<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:27 Lit. what you hear">v</a></span> in your ear you must shout from the housetops. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Stop being<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:28 Or Don’t be">w</a></span> afraid of those who kill the body but can’t kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:28 Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom">x</a></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">“Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren’t they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s permission.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:29 Lit. apart from your Father">y</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So stop being<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:31 Or don’t be">z</a></span> afraid. You are worth more than a bunch of sparrows.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Acknowledging the Messiah</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.htm">Luke 12:8-9</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">“Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before people I, too, will acknowledge before my Father in heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But whoever denies me before people I, too, will deny before my Father in heaven.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Not Peace, but Division</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.htm">Luke 12:49-53</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:34 i.e. conflict">aa</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I came to turn</span></p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="red">‘a man against his father,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">a daughter against her mother,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.</span></p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">A person’s enemies will include members of his own family.’<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:36 Cf. Mic 7:6">bb</a></span> </span></p> <p class="heading">The Cost of Discipleship</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/14.htm">Luke 14:25-27</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">“The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn’t worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The one who doesn’t take up his cross and follow me isn’t worthy of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Rewards</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/9.htm">Mark 9:41</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">“The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>The one who receives a prophet as<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:41 Lit. in the name of">cc</a></span> a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person as<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:41 Lit. in the name of">dd</a></span> a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:42 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">ee</a></span> with certainty, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:42 Lit. in the name of">ff</a></span> a disciple will never lose his reward.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:1 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:3 Other mss. read <i>Lebbaeus called Thaddaeus</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:04<i>Cananaean</i> is Aram. for <i>Zealot</i>.<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:4 Lit. <i>also</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:4 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 10:5 The Gk. lacks <i>these</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 10:5 Lit. <i>gentiles </i>; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews<br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 10:6 Lit. <i>house</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 10:7 Lit. <i>of</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 10:10 Lit. <i>two shirts</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 10:11 Lit. <i>worthy</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 10:12 The Gk. lacks <i>its occupants</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 10:13 Lit. <i>worthy</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 10:13 Lit. <i>worthy</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 10:15 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 10:18 Lit. <i>gentiles </i>; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 10:19 The Gk. lacks <i>you are to speak</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 10:20 Or <i>in</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 10:23 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 10:25 The name means <i>Lord of the Flies</i>; i.e. Satan<br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 10:25 The Gk. lacks <i>will they do the same to</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 10:27 Lit. <i>what you hear</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 10:28 Or <i>Don’t be</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 10:28<i>Gehenna</i>; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for <i>Valley of Hinnom</i><br /><span class="fnb">y</span> 10:29 Lit. <i>apart from your Father</i><br /><span class="fnb">z</span> 10:31 Or <i>don’t be</i><br /><span class="fnb">aa</span> 10:34 i.e. conflict<br /><span class="fnb">bb</span> 10:36 Cf. 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