Matthew 10:34-42

GOD’S WORD Translation

³⁴ “Don’t think that I came to bring peace to earth. I didn’t come to bring peace but conflict. ³⁵ I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶ A person’s enemies will be the members of his own family.

³⁷ “The person who loves his father or mother more than me does not deserve to be my disciple. The person who loves a son or daughter more than me does not deserve to be my disciple. ³⁸ Whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me doesn’t deserve to be my disciple. ³⁹ The person who tries to preserve his life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for me will preserve it.

⁴⁰ “The person who welcomes you welcomes me, and the person who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. ⁴¹ The person who welcomes a prophet as such will receive a prophet’s reward. The person who welcomes a godly person as such will receive a godly person’s reward. ⁴² I can guarantee this truth: Whoever gives any of my humble followers a cup of cold water because that person is my disciple will certainly never lose his reward.”