Matthew 10:32-42 ▼

32 |Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before people I, too, will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

33 But whoever denies me before people I, too, will deny before my Father in heaven.|

34 |Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword!

35 I came to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

36 A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'

37 |The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

38 The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me.

39 The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.|

40 |The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.

41 The one who receives a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.

42 I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple will never lose his reward.|