Romans 16:19

“For My people are ignorant fools, They know Me not; They are simpleminded children And have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.