Matthew 10:23-33

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²³When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.^(A)

²⁴“The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.^(B) ²⁵It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul,^(C) how much more the members of his household!

²⁶“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.^(D) ²⁷What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. ²⁸Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One^(E) who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.^[a] ³⁰And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.^(F) ³¹So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.^(G)

³²“Whoever acknowledges me before others,^(H) I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. ³³But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.^(I)

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Matthew 10:29 Or will; or knowledge

Jeremiah 20:7-13

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

⁷You deceived^[a]^(A) me, Lord, and I was deceived^[b];
    you overpowered^(B) me and prevailed.
I am ridiculed^(C) all day long;
    everyone mocks^(D) me.
⁸Whenever I speak, I cry out
    proclaiming violence and destruction.^(E)
So the word of the Lord has brought me
    insult and reproach^(F) all day long.
⁹But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”^(G)
his word is in my heart like a fire,^(H)
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;^(I)
    indeed, I cannot.
¹⁰I hear many whispering,
    “Terror^(J) on every side!
    Denounce^(K) him! Let’s denounce him!”
All my friends^(L)
    are waiting for me to slip,^(M) saying,
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then we will prevail^(N) over him
    and take our revenge^(O) on him.”

¹¹But the Lord^(P) is with me like a mighty warrior;
    so my persecutors^(Q) will stumble and not prevail.^(R)
They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced;^(S)
    their dishonor will never be forgotten.
¹²Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous
    and probe the heart and mind,^(T)
let me see your vengeance^(U) on them,
    for to you I have committed^(V) my cause.