10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges 7 me before people, I will acknowledge 8 before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.
10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring 9 peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. 10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 10:36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. 10
10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 10:38 And whoever does not take up his cross 11 and follow me is not worthy of me. 10:39 Whoever finds his life 12 will lose it, 13 and whoever loses his life because of me 14 will find it.
10:40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. 15 10:41 Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever 16 receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 10:42 And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, 17 he will never lose his reward.”