6. If the people living there are peace-loving, your prayer for peace will bless them. But if they are not peace-loving, your prayer will return to you.
7. Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they give you, because workers are worth what they earn. Don't move around from house to house.
8. If the people of a town welcome you, eat whatever they offer.
9. Heal their sick and say, “God's kingdom will soon be here!”
10. But if the people of a town refuse to welcome you, go out into the street and say,
11. “We are shaking the dust from our feet as a warning to you. And you can be sure that God's kingdom will soon be here!”
12. I tell you that on the day of judgment the people of Sodom will get off easier than the people of that town!
13. You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are also in for trouble! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.
14. On the day of judgment the people of Tyre and Sidon will get off easier than you will.
15. People of Capernaum, do you think you will be honoured in heaven? Well, you will go down to hell!
16. My followers, whoever listens to you is listening to me. Anyone who says “No” to you is saying “No” to me. And anyone who says “No” to me is really saying “No” to the one who sent me.