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13 If the people in that home welcome you, they are worthy of your peace. May they have the peace you wished for them. But if they don’t welcome you, they are not worthy of your peace. Take back the peace you wished for them. 14 And if the people in a home or a town refuse to welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.[a] 15 I can assure you that on the judgment day it will be worse for that town than for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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  1. Matthew 10:14 shake the dust off your feet A warning. It would show that they were finished talking to these people.

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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