and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;