Go; behold, I send you out as lambs in [the] midst of wolves.

For I know this, that savage wolves will come in after my departure, not sparing the flock.

[ 3:2] Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made. And the serpent said to the woman, Has God truly said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?

[ 3:14] And the Lord God said to the woman, Why have you done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict nor to withstand.

For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I rejoice on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent to what is evil.

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

See then that you walk carefully, not as unwise, but as wise,

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I rejoice on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent to what is evil.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

avoiding this, lest anyone should blame us in this abundance which is ministered by us;

But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

You are witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we were to you that believe;

Abstain from every form of evil.