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

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

Now the serpent was more cunning than any living thing of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? 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 or resist.

For your obedience has reached to everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise unto what is good, and simple toward evil.

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

But I fear, lest somehow, 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 circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the full true knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience has reached to everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise unto what is good, and simple toward evil.

For our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

avoiding this: that anyone should find fault with us in this abundance which is administered by us;

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

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and uprightly and blamelessly we were among you who believe;

Abstain from every form of evil.