³³ But if anyone publicly denies me, I will openly deny him before my Father in heaven.

³⁴ “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! No, rather, a sword. ³⁵ I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— ³⁶ a man’s worst enemies will be right in his own home! ³⁷ If you love your father and mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. ³⁸ If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.

³⁹ “If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will save it.