³⁰ Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ^(A)‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ^(B)‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and ^(C)those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

Confess Christ Before Men^(A)

^32 (B)“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, ^(C)him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

^38 (A)For whoever ^(B)is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

⁹ that ^(A)if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

^23 (A)Whoever denies the Son does not have the ^(B)Father either; ^(C)he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.