Matthew 10:14
Good News Translation
And if some home or town will not welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.

New Revised Standard Version
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.

Contemporary English Version
If someone won't welcome you or listen to your message, leave their home or town. And shake the dust from your feet at them.

New American Bible
Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words—go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet.

whosoever.

Matthew 10:40,41 He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. . . .

Matthew 18:5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

Mark 6:11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.

Mark 9:37 Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name receiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me receiveth not me but him that sent me.

Luke 9:5,48 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off even the dust of your feet, for a testimony against them. . . .

Luke 10:10,11 But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, going forth into the streets thereof, say: . . .

John 13:20 Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

shake.

Nehemiah 5:13 Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.

Acts 13:51 But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Acts 18:6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Acts 20:26,27 Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men. . . .

Context
The Ministry of the Twelve
13And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you. 14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. 15Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:13
And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.

Mark 6:11
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.

Luke 10:11
Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.

Acts 13:51
But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Matthew 10:13
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