³² Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me [^[a]out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and ^[b]confess [that I am abiding in] him.

³³ But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven.

³⁸ For whoever ^[a]is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels.

⁸ And I tell you, Whoever declares openly [speaking out freely] and confesses that he is My worshiper and acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man also will declare and confess and acknowledge him before the angels of God.

⁹ But he who disowns and denies and rejects and refuses to acknowledge Me before men will be disowned and denied and rejected and refused acknowledgement in the presence of the angels of God.

²⁶ Because whoever is ashamed of Me and of My teachings, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in the [^[a]threefold] glory (the splendor and majesty) of Himself and of the Father and of the holy angels.