Matthew 10:16

Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and mor...

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.