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13 If the home is deserving, let your blessing remain with them. But if the home doesn't accept you, take back your blessing of peace. 14 (A) If someone won't welcome you or listen to your message, leave their home or town. And shake the dust from your feet at them.[a] 15 (B) I promise you the day of judgment will be easier for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah[b] than for that town.

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Footnotes

  1. 10.14 shake the dust from your feet at them: This was a way of showing rejection (see Acts 13.51).
  2. 10.15 Sodom and Gomorrah: During the time of Abraham the Lord destroyed these towns because the people there were so evil.

13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.(A) 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah(B) on the day of judgment(C) than for that town.(D)

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