Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ `You are my friends. I tell you, do not fear people who can kill your bodies. After that they cannot do anything more to you.

⁵ I will tell you whom you must fear. Fear the one who, after he has killed, has the power to throw into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for a tiny sum of money? Yet God does not forget about one of them.

⁷ Even the number of hairs on your head is known. So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.'

⁸ `And I tell you. If anyone tells people that he knows me, the Son of Man will also tell the angels of God that he knows him.

⁹ But if anyone tells people he does not know me, the Son of Man will also tell the angels of God that he does not know that person.

¹⁰ `Everyone who says anything against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But anyone who says wrong things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

¹¹ `When men take you to the meeting houses and to the rulers and to the courts, do not be troubled about what you will answer or say.

¹² The Holy Spirit will teach you at the right time what you must say.'