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.

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.