²⁹“Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s permission. ³⁰Every hair on your head has been counted. ³¹Don’t be afraid! You are worth more than many sparrows.

³²“So I will acknowledge in front of my Father in heaven that person who acknowledges me in front of others. ³³But I will tell my Father in heaven that I don’t know the person who tells others that he doesn’t know me.

³⁴“Don’t think that I came to bring peace to earth. I didn’t come to bring peace but conflict. ³⁵I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶A 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. ³⁸Whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me doesn’t deserve to be my disciple. ³⁹The 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. ⁴¹The 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. ⁴²I 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.”

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Matthew 10:42: “And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”