Matthew 10:16

³Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

¹⁵that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

²⁰Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

⁵Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

¹⁵Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸For those who are such don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

¹⁵for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

²⁹For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

³But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

²²Abstain from every form of evil.