See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by {your} letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. {liberality: Gr. gift}

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. {harmless: or, simple}

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. {harmless: or, simple}

And laid {them} down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what {is} thine with me, and take {it} to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him {was} Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them {was} Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and {that} ye may have lack of nothing. {of...: or, of no man}

And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, {even} the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel {there} present, had offered: