Matthew 10:24-42 ▼

24 the disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

25 if the disciple fare as well as his master, and the servant as his lord, is not that sufficient? if they style the master of the house Beelzebub, much more will they call his domestics so.

26 fear them not therefore: for there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed; or secret that shall not be made known.

27 what I tell you in private, declare it in publick: and what is whisper'd in the ear, proclaim from the battlements of the house.

28 fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

29 are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them shall lose its life independently of your father,

30 by whom the very hairs of your head are all numbred:

31 lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals.

32 Whosoever therefore shall own me before men, him will I own likewise before my father who is in heaven.

33 but whosoever shall renounce me before men, him will I also renounce before my father who is in heaven.

34 don't imagine that I am come to bring peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but war.

35 my coming will occasion discord between the son and his father, between the daughter and her mother, between the daughter in law and her mother in law:

36 even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes.

37 he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me.

38 and he that does not take his cross, and so follow after me, is unworthy of me.

39 he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

40 He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him that sent me.

41 he that receives a prophet in quality of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a just man, as such, shall receive the reward of the just.

42 and whoever shall give only a cup of cold water to the meanest of you, considering him as my disciple, shall most assuredly be far from losing his reward.